HyperDic: needle_furze

English > 1 sense of the expression needle furze:
NOUNplantneedle furze, broom tree, petty whin, Genista anglicaprickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe
English > needle furze: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningprickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe.
Synonymsbroom tree, petty whin, Genista anglica
Member ofGenista, genus Genistachiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia
BroaderbroomAny of various shrubs of the genera ... / genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers

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