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noun very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
originFrom Middle English firse, furs, from Old English fyrs (“furze, gorse, bramble”), from Old English fyres (“furze”), related to Old English fȳr (“fire”); otherwise of unknown origin.
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