Gorse Synonyms

gôrs
Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. whin
  2. furze
  3. Irish gorse
  4. Ulex europaeus

Words Related to Gorse

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. bracken
  2. bramble
  3. hawthorn
  4. cotton grass
  5. blackthorn
  6. dogwood
  7. hedgebanks
  8. hornbeam
  9. rhododendron
  10. scrubby
  11. quaking grass

Gorse Sentence Examples

  • Like the Gorse and a few other shrubs of the Pea family, they delight in a dry, sandy soil, and when in flower, which is during several weeks in late summer and in autumn, they are pretty, their foliage being light and elegant.

  • It turned right with gorse bushes in the hedge giving extra color.

  • There was plenty of yellow gorse in flower looking bright in the dull light.

  • Holmes held up a crumpled branch of flowering gorse.

  • Common heather is frequent, but western gorse is a feature of the dry heath.

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