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furze

[ furz ]

noun



furze

/ fɜːz /

noun

  1. another name for gorse
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈfurzy, adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of furze1

before 1000; Middle English furse, firse, Old English fyr ( e ) s; akin to Russian pyréĭ couch grass, Greek pȳrós wheat, Lithuanian dialect pūraĩ winter wheat
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Word History and Origins

Origin of furze1

Old English fyrs
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Example Sentences

But behold, DiCaprio, whose volcanic growth of furze is surely proof that the vogue for beards needs to be trimmed back.

But hold your tongue for a while, and cast your eye along the valley, and watch the mist gathering on the furze and sloe trees.

The clusters of furze-bushes bordered the steep sides of hollow roads in anticipation of the clusters of the hawthorn.

As a garden shrub the Furze may be grown either as a single lawn shrub or in the hedge or shrubbery.

His cover is in some young birch-trees, which form a leafy thicket among the furze.

In the furze on Tolworth Common—a resort of chats—the land-lizards are busy every sunny day.

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