Gorse
[gɔːs]
Definition
(noun.) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe.
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Definition
(n.) Furze. See Furze.
Inputed by Barnard
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Furze, whin, goss (Ulex europæus).
Typed by Claus
Definition
n. a prickly shrub growing on waste places the furze or whin.—adj. Gors′y.
Inputed by Huntington
Examples
- On the bright hill-sides was a subdued smoulder of gorse. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Down out of the gray rocks and the pines, the heather and the gorse, across the yellow high plateau you see it rising white and beautiful. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Suddenly, as I looked ahead, the gleam of metal caught my eye from amid the thick gorse-bushes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- We were going up that hill breast high in the gorse and heather. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The fascists had attacked and we had stopped them on that slope in the gray rocks, the scrub pines and the gorse of the Guadarrama hillsides. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He was a brown spot in the midst of an expanse of olive-green gorse, and nothing more. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The smell of the sea as you walk through the gorse on a headland in Galicia? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The heath was covered with golden patches of flowering gorse, gleaming magnificently in the light of the bright spring sunshine. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Holmes held up a crumpled branch of flowering gorse. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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