very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe

[ Syn: gorse , furze , irish gorse , ulex europaeus ]

small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental

[ Syn: woodwaxen , dyers greenweed , dyers-broom , dyeweed , greenweed , woadwaxen , genista tinctoria ]

any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)

[ Syn: whinstone ]