furze
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- noun
- /fɜːz/
- UK
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furze
- The furze will spangle its gossamer with diamonds for your pleasure, and your way will be cast with the pearls of the wood dove's plume.
- furze bush
Examples
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Titanyen was a wide plain of muck held together by a furze of rank, sprawling weeds.
Fiction book (2000) -
But the furze is a shallow weed, and after only an hour the excuse work is mostly done, the thorny bush as root-exposed as if he were planting it instead of casting it out.
Fiction book (2001) -
"long heath, brown furze, anything.
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So he goes after the roots of a furze bush.
Fiction book (2001) -
It's a pitch-filled thing, a furze bush, so it burns hot and fast.
Fiction book (2001) -
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground - long heath, brown furze, any thing.
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Bedecking furze-clad heath and rushy waste
Academic text (2017) -
She kept running, chasing the bumblebees when the red earth gave way a bit, and she fell along the gorse and furze bushes hidden among the broom.
Fiction book (1990) -
Molehills are always surrounded by the marks of other forms of life: in the lines above, the intractable furze, rabbit tracks, sheep tracks, and wagon paths all point to this mutual flourishing.
Academic text (2017) -
The landscape was dotted with bright yellow flowers blooming from the furze bushes.
Synonyms
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A bush with sharp thorns and bright yellow flowers that smell nice
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A bush with sharp thorns and bright yellow flowers
A very spiny evergreen bush with bright yellow flowers
A very spiny evergreen bush with bright yellow fragrant flowers
A spiny shrub with bright yellow flowers that grows in Europe and Asia
A shrub with many bright yellow flowers that grows in warm places
A prickly bush with bright yellow flowers that grows on moors
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word furze comes from an old English word fyrse, which named the same 'spiny shrub' with bright yellow flowers. It is the same plant often called gorse, so the origin helps explain why furze still means that prickly, yellow-flowered bush you see on hills and hedges today.