gorses

Noun

gorse (countable and uncountable, plural gorses)

1. An evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having thorns, spiny leaves, and yellow flowers.
   • The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick

   Synonyms:

   furze, whin