Furze

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fɜː(ɹ)z/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)z

Full definition of furze

Noun

1. A thorny evergreen shrub (), with yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 93Clumps of withered grass stood out on the hill-top; the furze bushes were black, and now and then a black shiver crossed the snow as the wind drove flurries of frozen particles before it.

Synonyms

• gorse, whin

Derived terms

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