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Gorse

//ɡɔɹs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having thorns, spiny leaves, and yellow flowers. countable, uncountable

    "The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common."

  2. 2
    very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English gorst, gors, from Old English gors, gorst, from Proto-West Germanic *gorst, from Proto-Germanic *gurstaz or Proto-West Germanic *gerstu (“barley”). Akin to German Gerste (“barley”) and Latin hordeum (“barley”). Also compare Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“to bristle”), whence Proto-Celtic *garwos.

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