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• underbrush — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. bush, thicket, brake, bracken, scrub, shrubbery, boscage; furze, gorse, heather. See vegetable. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. thicket, brush, brushwood, boscage, jungle, undergrowth, tangle, copse, coppice …   English dictionary for students

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• gorse — [OE] Gorse appears to mean etymologically ‘prickly bush’. It has been traced back to an Indo European source *ghrzddenoting ‘roughness’ or ‘prickliness’, which also produced German gerste ‘barley’. Of the plant’s other names, furze [OE] is of… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• gorse — [OE] Gorse appears to mean etymologically ‘prickly bush’. It has been traced back to an Indo European source *ghrzddenoting ‘roughness’ or ‘prickliness’, which also produced German gerste ‘barley’. Of the plant’s other names, furze [OE] is of… …   Word origins

• Irish gorse — noun very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe • Syn: ↑gorse, ↑furze, ↑whin, ↑Ulex europaeus • Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush • Member Holon …   Useful english dictionary

• Ulex europaeus — noun very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe • Syn: ↑gorse, ↑furze, ↑whin, ↑Irish gorse • Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush • Member Holonyms …   Useful english dictionary