Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe.

synonyms: furze, gorse, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus.

Roget 367: vegetable, vegetable kingdom; flora, verdure.    plant; tree, shrub, bush; creeper; herb, herbage; grass.    annual; perennial, biennial, triennial; exotic.    timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst^†, frith^†, holt, weald^†, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage^†, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood; scrub; boscage, bosk^†, ceja [Sp.], chaparal, motte [U.S.]; arboretum etc. 371.    bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary^†; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva^†, mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria^†, banyan; blow, blowth^†; floret^†, petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia.    foliage, branch, bough, ramage^†, stem, tigella^†; spray etc. 51; leaf.    flower, blossom, bine^†; flowering plant; timber tree, fruit tree; pulse, legume.    ... show more

Dutch: brem, doornstruik, duindoorn, gaspeldoorn
Polish: kolcolist zachodni

Small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental.

synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, greenweed, woadwaxen, woodwaxen.

Dutch: duindoorn, gaspeldoorn
Polish: janowiec barwierski

Any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt).

synonym: whinstone.