Hypertext Webster Gateway: "furze"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Furze \Furze\, n. [OE. firs, As. fyrs.] (Bot.)
A thorny evergreen shrub ({Ulex Europ[ae]us}), with beautiful
yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of
Great Britain; -- called also {gorse}, and {whin}. The dwarf
furze is {Ulex nanus}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
furze
n : very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant
golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
[syn: {gorse}, {whin}, {Irish gorse}, {Ulex europaeus}]
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