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noun • very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe | ||||||||
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noun • any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines | ||||||||
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noun • Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips • a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries • evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes • a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath | ||||||||
Prickly Shrubs Stick Pierced By Sun Crossword Clue
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GORSE which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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GORSE
Updated: October 14, 2023
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