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Furze

Furze

(Science: botany) a thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europaeus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus.

Origin: oe. Firs, as. Fyrs.


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