[ɡɔːs], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a yellow-flowered shrub of the pea family, the leaves of which are modified to form spines, native to western Europe and North Africa
(e.g: sheep graze on undulating green hills blooming with yellow gorse)


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English gors, gorst, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘rough, prickly’, shared by German Gerste and Latin hordeum ‘barley’