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Noun: gorse  gors
  1. Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
    "Gorse thickets provide important habitat for many bird species"; "Irish gorse thickets provide important habitat for many bird species";
    - furze, whin, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus

Derived forms: gorses

Type of: bush, shrub

Part of: genus Ulex, Ulex

Encyclopedia: Gorse