Gorse Definition

gôrs
noun

Furze.

Webster's New World
Any of several spiny evergreen shrubs of the genus Ulex of the pea family, especially U. europaeus, native to Europe and naturalized elsewhere, having fragrant yellow flowers and black pods.
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Noun

Singular:
gorse
Plural:
gorses

Origin of Gorse

  • From Middle English gorst, from Old English gors, akin to German Gerste (“barley”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English gorst, gors from Old English

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Gorse Sentence Examples

  • Like the Gorse and a few other shrubs of the Pea family, they delight in a dry, sandy soil, and when in flower, which is during several weeks in late summer and in autumn, they are pretty, their foliage being light and elegant.

  • It turned right with gorse bushes in the hedge giving extra color.

  • There was plenty of yellow gorse in flower looking bright in the dull light.

  • Holmes held up a crumpled branch of flowering gorse.

  • Common heather is frequent, but western gorse is a feature of the dry heath.

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