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NEEDLE FURZE

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

• NEEDLE FURZE (noun)

Sense 1

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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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