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Furze vs. Gorse — What's the Difference?

Furze vs. Gorse — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Furze and Gorse

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Furze

See gorse.

Gorse

Any of several spiny evergreen shrubs of the genus Ulex of the pea family, especially U. europaeus, native to Europe and naturalized elsewhere, having fragrant yellow flowers and black pods. Also called furze, whin1.

Furze

A thorny evergreen shrub, with yellow flowers, Ulex gen. et spp., of which Ulex europaeus is particularly common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain and Ireland.

Gorse

An evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having thorns, spiny leaves, and yellow flowers.

Furze

A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europæus), 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.
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Gorse

Furze. See Furze.
The common, overgrown with fern, and roughWith prickly gorse.

Furze

Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe

Gorse

Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe

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