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n. - Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers.

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  • The Senator remarked that the gorse was a very little place, -- for as they were on the side of an opposite hill they could see it all.
  • The Senator remarked that the gorse was a very little place, — for as they were on the side of an opposite hill they could see it all.
  • And the mountain gorse aglow
  • And even the gorse is perished.
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