All gorse synonyms

noun gorse

• thicket — a thick or dense growth of shrubs, bushes, or small trees; a thick coppice.
• scrub — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
• prick — a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like.
• shrub — any of various acidulated beverages made from the juice of fruit, sugar, and other ingredients, often including alcohol.
• thorn — German name of Toruń.
• nettle — any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs. Compare nettle family.
• spray — a single, slender shoot, twig, or branch with its leaves, flowers, or berries.
• burr — A burr is the part of some plants which contains seeds and which has little hooks on the outside so that it sticks to clothes or fur.
• hedge — a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow: small fields separated by hedges.
• cleaver — A cleaver is a knife with a large square blade, used for chopping meat or vegetables.
• furze — gorse.
• thistle — any of various prickly, composite plants having showy, purple flower heads, especially of the genera Cirsium, Carduus, or Onopordum.
• brier — any of various thorny shrubs or other plants, such as the sweetbrier and greenbrier
• shrubbery — a planting of shrubs: He hit the croquet ball into the shrubbery.
• undergrowth — low-lying vegetation or small trees growing beneath larger trees; underbrush.
• grove — Sir George, 1820–1900, English musicologist.
• cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
• coppice — A coppice is a small group of trees growing very close to each other.
• copse — A copse is a small group of trees growing very close to each other.
• dingle — a deep, narrow cleft between hills; shady dell.
• sedge — any rushlike or grasslike plant of the genus Carex, growing in wet places. Compare sedge family.
• underwood — woody shrubs or small trees growing among taller trees.
• brushwood — Brushwood consists of small pieces of wood that have broken off trees and bushes.
• fern — a female given name.
• bracken — Bracken is a large plant with leaves that are divided into many thin sections. It grows on hills and in woods.
• spinney — a small wood or thicket.
• chaparral — (in the southwestern US) a dense growth of shrubs and trees, esp evergreen oaks
• goose grass — cleavers.
• boscage — a mass of trees and shrubs; thicket