1. (noun) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe

• furze
• gorse
• irish gorse
• ulex europaeus

2. (noun) 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

• dyer's greenweed
• dyer's-broom
• dyeweed
• genista tinctoria
• greenweed
• woadwaxen
• woodwaxen

3. (noun) any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)

• whinstone

1. (noun) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe

• bush
• shrub

2. (noun) 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

• broom

3. (noun) any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)

• rock
• stone

1. (noun) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe

• genus ulex
• ulex

2. (noun) 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

• genista
• genus genista