gorse

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ɡɔːs/    美 /ɡɔɹs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having thorns, spiny leaves, and yellow flowers. countable,uncountable
    — The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.

词形变化

gorses plural

词源

From Middle English gorst, gors, from Old English gors, gorst, from Proto-West Germanic *gorst, from Proto-Germanic *gurstaz or Proto-West Germanic *gerstu (“barley”).
Akin to German Gerste (“barley”) and Latin hordeum (“barley”). Also compare Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“to bristle”), whence Proto-Celtic *garwos.
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