Definitions for gorses

gorses gorse

Spelling: [gawrs]
IPA: /gɔrs/

Gorses is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in gorses (egorss).

Definitions for gorses

noun

  1. any spiny shrub of the genus Ulex, of the legume family, native to the Old World, especially U. europaeus, having rudimentary leaves and yellow flowers and growing in waste places and sandy soil.

Origin of gorses

before 900; Middle English gorst, Old English; akin to German Gerste, Latin hordeum barley

Examples for gorses

If the gorse should fail the fuchsia might even take its place on the mountains.

Nae, the pastures were brown, or purple and yellow with heather and gorse.

Just stirring the peats, and boiling the kettle, and lifting the gorse when there was any fire.

Why, to carry her, you torment, to carry her through the gorse like this.

I turned quickly from the pond and pressed a way through the gorse.

It's 'Kate' in the sea, and 'Kate' in the river, and the trees and the gorse.

The bees buzzed about the wild thyme and the golden heads of gorse.

Meanwhile they fired the gorse in front of the 29th Division.

I reload rapidly, and on reaching the gorse 'put in' the dogs.

The gorse was fast extending its golden empire over the commons.

Word Value for gorses
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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