gorse Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
    whin; Irish gorse; Ulex europaeus; furze.

WordNet

Gorse noun
Etymology
OE. & AS. gorst; perh. akin to E. grow, grass.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) Furze. See Furze.
    The common, overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly gorse. Cowper.

Webster 1913