FURZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does furze mean? 

• FURZE (noun)
  The noun FURZE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: FURZE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FURZE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

furze; gorse; Irish gorse; Ulex europaeus; whin

Hypernyms ("furze" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("furze" is a member of...):

genus Ulex; Ulex (genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs: gorse)

 Context examples 

We have just received intelligence that another child, missed last night, was only discovered late in the morning under a furze bush at the Shooter's Hill side of Hampstead Heath, which is, perhaps, less frequented than the other parts.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)