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What (who) is gorse - definition

GENUS OF PLANTS
Whin; Furze; Whins; Furzy; Furzes; Gorse; Gorse bush; Nepa (plant); Gorsebush; Gorse-bush
  • Common gorse flowers
  • Controlled burning of gorse in [[Devon]], England
  • Fruiting at [[Mallaig]], Scotland
  • Southern Chile]]
  • In full flower at [[Dalgarven Mill]] in Scotland.
  •  A whin-stone at [[Dalgarven Mill]], Scotland, used to crush whin for use as winter feed for cattle

gorse         
Gorse is a dark green bush that grows in Europe. It has small yellow flowers and sharp prickles.
N-UNCOUNT
gorse         
n.
Furze, whin, goss (Ulex Europaeus).
Gorse         
·noun Furze. ·see Furze.

Wikipedia

Ulex

Ulex (commonly known as gorse, furze, or whin) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. The genus comprises about 20 species of thorny evergreen shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae. The species are native to parts of western Europe and northwest Africa, with the majority of species in Iberia.

Gorse is closely related to the brooms and like them has green stems and very small leaves and is adapted to dry growing conditions. However it differs in its extreme thorniness, the shoots being modified into branched thorns 1–4 centimetres (121+12 inches) long, which almost wholly replace the leaves as the plant's functioning photosynthetic organs. The leaves of young plants are trifoliate, but in mature plants they are reduced to scales or small spines. All the species have yellow flowers, generally showy, some with a very long flowering season.

Examples of use of gorse
1. His timetable torn to shreds, H arrived in the Gorse Gully at 8.20am.
2. "My wife walked her dogs on Woodbury Common every day and we believe she went among some gorse.
3. A woman died from the ‘flesh–eating bug‘ necrotising fasciitis days after scratching her arm on a gorse bush.
4. Sarah, eight, disappeared while playing near her grandparents‘ home in Kingston Gorse, West Sussex, in July 2000.
5. We stood together in a semi–circle around him, trying to get some heat from a smouldering gorse fire nearby.