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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of leguminous plants, of the tribe Genisteæ and subtribe Cytiseæ; the furze. It is distinguished from the related genus Cytisus by its deeply two-lipped membranous and colored calyx. It includes about 10 or 12 species, natives of western Europe or northwestern Africa—one species, U. nanus, extending east nearly to Nice; and another, U. Europseus, perhaps to Tuscany. They are spiny shrubs without genuine leaves, the leaves being reduced to a spine, petiole, or scale. The yellow flowers are solitary or racemose at the ends of the branches. For Ulex genitoides (Stauracanthus aphyllus), see
cross-spine. U. Europæus , which also extends to the Azores and Canary Islands, and occurs naturalized on high mountains in Jamaica, is the common furze, gorse, or whin of Great Britain. Seefurze .
WordNet 3.0
- n. genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs: gorse
Examples
“We occasionally though rarely see something of the same kind in plants; thus the first leaves of the ulex or furze, and the first leaves of the phyllodineous æacias, are pinnate or divided like the ordinary leaves of the Leguminosæ.”
“We occasionally though rarely see something of this kind in plants: thus the embryonic leaves of the ulex or furze, and the first leaves of the phyllodineous acaceas, are pinnate or divided like the ordinary leaves of the leguminosae.”
“We occasionally though rarely see something of this kind in plants: thus the embryonic leaves of the ulex or furze, and the first leaves of the phyllodineous acaceas, are pinnate or divided like the ordinary leaves of the leguminosæ.”
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