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/ɡɔɹs/ · noun
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.
Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
Use gorse when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gorse means An evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having thorns, spiny leaves, and yellow flowers..
Common synonyms include furze, whin, ulex europaeus, irish gorse.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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