furze : Idioms & Phrases


Ground furze

  • (Bot.), a low slightly thorny, leguminous shrub (Ononis arvensis) of Europe and Central Asia,; called also rest-harrow.
Webster 1913

Needle furze

  • noun prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe
    Genista anglica; broom tree; petty whin.
WordNet
  • (Bot.), a prickly leguminous plant of Western Europe; the petty whin (Genista Anglica).
Webster 1913