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(noun) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe |
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Synonyms: Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus, furze, gorse |
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Related Words: bush, shrub |
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(noun) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as weed in England and United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental |
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Synonyms: Genista tinctoria, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, woadwaxen, woodwaxen |
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Related Words: broom |
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