(n)very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe, Syn.furze, Ulex europaeus, whin, Irish gorse
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n. [ OE. & AS. gorst; perh. akin to E. grow, grass. ] (Bot.) Furze. See Furze. [ 1913 Webster ]
The common, overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly gorse. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]
Gorse bird (Zool.), the European linnet; -- called also gorse hatcher. [ Prov. Eng. ] -- Gorse chat (Zool.), the winchat. -- Gorse duck, the corncrake; -- called also grass drake, land drake, and corn drake. [ 1913 Webster ]