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5 letters · 6 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
originFrom Middle English gorst, gors, from Old English gors, gorst, from Proto-West Germanic *gorst, from Proto-Germanic *gurstaz or Proto-West Germanic *gerstu (“barley”). Akin to German Gerste (“barley”) and Latin hordeum (“barley”). Also compare Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“to bristle”), whence Proto-Celtic *garwos.
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