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NEEDLE FURZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does needle furze mean?
• NEEDLE FURZE (noun)
The noun NEEDLE FURZE has 1 sense:
1. prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe
Familiarity information: NEEDLE FURZE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
broom tree; Genista anglica; needle furze; petty whin
Hypernyms ("needle furze" is a kind of...):
broom (any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers)
Holonyms ("needle furze" is a member of...):
Genista; genus Genista (chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom)
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