furze Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
    whin; Irish gorse; Ulex europaeus; gorse.

WordNet

Furze noun
Etymology
OE. firs, As. fyrs.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) 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.

Webster 1913