gorse
An evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having thorns, spiny leaves, and yellow flowers.
Noun
- An evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having thorns, spiny leaves, and yellow flowers.
- 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...
- Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary...
Origin
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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gorse bird gorse chat gorse duck gorse hatcher gorseland gorsy Meynell's Gorse