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# furze

«furze» in Mova's school dictionary: **a prickly yellow-flowered shrub that grows on heaths and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (furze)

### meaning for a pupil

Furze is a prickly yellow-flowered shrub that grows on heaths and common land, also called gorse. (old use, in fairy tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furze/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales, a bundle of dry furze is used to build a house or for fuel

### examples

- The man carried a bundle of furze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furze/#x1)
- The pig built his house from furze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furze/#x2)
- Yellow flowers grew on the furze bushes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furze/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «furze» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furze/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.