Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe.
Small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental.
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Examples for "gorse "
Examples for "gorse "
1 The gorse and the broom were a fine accent in the landscape.
2 Firefighters put out a major gorse blaze in west Belfast this morning.
3 Unfortunately, it was gorse , so my hand was impaled by the thorns.
4 The noise spread through the gallery as a fire spreads through gorse .
5 A large gorse fire has broken out near Bray in Co Wicklow.
1 The birds flirted up and down the hawthorn bushes and furze brakes.
2 Heath and furze were the sole vegetation which covers this endless wilderness.
3 Brushing some spikes of furze off my hands, I prepared for it.
4 Did you see any one as you came through the furze bushes?
5 He owned a round, ruddy face with a white furze of beard.
Any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
1 The warm sweet smell of the whin bloom was in the air.
2 Francie lay there in his appointed hiding-hole, looking abroad between two whin -bushes .
3 Well, as I said, whin five months had gone by they met.
4 An' whin we got up to the top of the city, 'Mrs.
5 Mariar she used ter live thar whin Mis' Celie wus a baby.
6 I was jokin' wid ye, whin I called ye this or that.
7 Jack himself is no slouch whin it comes to stowing away things.
8 The matron'll settle with ye good and plenty whin she gits toime!
9 De 'h way he lash nigger whin e' don do jist so!
10 The desultory crackling of the whin -pods in the afternoon sun usurped the ear.
11 And I can find out whin he will be here again.
12 And thin there's days whin the wind has to do, and the light.
13 Give us that one about yoursilf whin ye was a schoolboy.
14 The humble furze bush or whin was collected and ground down to shreds.
15 Sea-cave and moss-hag, wood-shelter and whin -bush , he knows every hidie-hole for forty mile.
16 Ef they do, I'll kill them meself whin they comes over th' side.
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