ulex

English Thesaurus

1. genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs: gorse (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	rosid dicot genus,
definition	:	a genus of dicotyledonous plants (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	furze, gorse, irish gorse, ulex europaeus, whin,
definition	:	very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	papilionoideae, subfamily papilionoideae,
definition	:	alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae (noun.plant)