gorse: [OE] Gorse appears to mean etymologically ‘prickly bush’. It has been traced back to an Indo-European source *ghrzddenoting ‘roughness’ or ‘prickliness’, which also produced German gerste ‘barley’. Of the plant’s other names, furze [OE] is of unknown origin, while whin [11] was probably borrowed from a Scandinavian language.
gorse (n.)
Old English gors "gorse, furze," from Proto-Germanic *gorst- (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German gersta, Middle Dutch gherste, Dutch gerst, German gerste "barley"), from PIE *ghers- "to bristle" (source also of Latin hordeum "barley;" see horror).
实用例句
1. Her horse shied violently at a gorse bush.
金雀花丛把她的马惊得猛然后退.来自《简明英汉词典》
2. Thoroughly drenched and chilled , the two adventurers returned to their position in the gorse.
两个冒险家浑身湿漉漉地打着寒噤,回到原先金雀花丛那里.来自辞典例句
3. People say that when gorse is out of bloom, kissing is out of fashion.
