gorse
pronunciation
How to pronounce gorse in British English:
UK [gɔ:s]
How to pronounce gorse in American English:
US [gɔrs]
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- Noun:
- very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
Word Origin
- gorse
- gorse: [OE] Gorse appears to mean etymologically ‘prickly bush’. It has been traced back to an Indo-European source *ghrzddenoting ‘roughness’ or ‘prickliness’, which also produced German gerste ‘barley’. Of the plant’s other names, furze [OE] is of unknown origin, while whin [11] was probably borrowed from a Scandinavian language.
- gorse (n.)
- Old English gors "gorse, furze," from Proto-Germanic *gorst- (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German gersta, Middle Dutch gherste, Dutch gerst, German gerste "barley"), from PIE *ghers- "to bristle" (source also of Latin hordeum "barley;" see horror).
Example
- 1. These yellow wild flowers are gorse .
- 2. Thoroughly drenched and chilled , the two adventurers returned to their position in the gorse .
- 3. They 'll be haven from the gorse .
- 4. The only area where it doesn 't measure up to pacific dunes is the vegetation - the trees and gorse bushes gave pacific dunes beautiful contrast .
- 5. The researchers compared the 144 of them women of breast cancer and 288 women without breast cancer of the blood samples , analysis gorse isoflavone concentration and the relationship between the breast cancer risk .