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furze
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun furze has 1 sense
- furze(n = noun.plant) gorse, irish gorse, ulex europaeus, whin - very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe; Array is a member of genus ulex, ulex
is a kind of bush, shrub
CIDE DICTIONARY
furze, n. [OE. firs, As. fyrs.].
A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europæus ), 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 . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
furze, n. Brit. = GORSE.
Derivative
furzy adj.
Etymology
OE fyrs, of unkn. orig.
ROGET THESAURUS
furze
Vegetable
N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.
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