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gorsy

  • a word derived from gorse.
    gorse
    noun
    any spiny shrub of the genus Ulex, of the legume family, native to the Old World, especially U. europaeus, having rudimentary leaves and yellow flowers and growing in waste places and sandy soil.

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The trees grew more and more in groves, with healthy places in between, sandy, gorsy, and dotted with old yews.

From The Black Arrow A Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson

The trees grew more and more in groves, with heathy places in between, sandy, gorsy, and dotted with old yews. 

From The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson

The trees grew more and more in groves, with heathy places in between, sandy, gorsy, and dotted with old yews.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

I find it difficult to believe that the life of the fields and gorsy hills and young plantations would be either better or worse if there were no such thing as gossamer.

From Gossamer 1915 by George A. Birmingham

She reached the opposite gate, and felt her way along its rails and the rails of the sheep-fold, till her hand encountered the pricking of the gorsy wall.

From Adam Bede by George Eliot