FURZE

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Meaning:

Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe

Synonyms:

furze; gorse; Irish gorse; Ulex europaeus; whin

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("furze" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("furze" is a member of...):

genus Ulex; Ulex (genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs: gorse)

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