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gorse
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synonyms: furze, whin, Ulex europaeus ???
tags: [botany]
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Definition:a genus of very thorny evergreen plants in the warmer European climes. They are an aggressively invasive species in their non-native habitats, specifically in the western USA, Hawaii, southern South America, the antipodes and other locales.The flowers are edible. The thorny bushes themselves are highly flammable and have been used as a fuel source.
photo: by Roger Griffith, released this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide.
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Overgrown with gorse and heather, and zigzagging so that it was never visible for more than six feet ahead, it was still unmistakably a path, leading steeply up toward the crest of a hill.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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They had chosen a lovely spot on a heather-clad moorland, where she could stroll alone with Bertram among the gorse and ling, utterly oblivious of Robert Monteith and the unnatural world she had left for ever behind her.
Grant Allen. The British Barbarians.
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a strong growth of tawny prickly hair in hue and toughness similar to the mountain gorse (Ulex Europeus).
James Joyce. Ulysses.
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Blindly we ran through the gloom, blundering against boulders, forcing our way through gorse bushes, panting up hills and rushing down slopes,
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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the Lesbian officer with the thin lips and the tidy gold hair, and the men waiting on the Common outside the camp, among the gorse bushes . , . compared to that, surely even the Atlantic was more a home.
Graham Greene. The Heart of the Matter, p.158 (1948)
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