broom

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: broom

1	n v	a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
2	n	any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
3	n	common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: broom

Types:: besom
a broom made of twigs tied together on a long handle; push broom
a wide broom that is pushed ahead of the sweeper; whisk, whisk broom
a small short-handled broom used to brush clothes

Type of:: cleaning device, cleaning equipment, cleaning implement
any of a large class of implements used for cleaning

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; weeping tree broom
small shrubby tree of New Zealand having weeping branches and racemes of white to violet flowers followed by woolly indehiscent two-seeded pods; Cytisus albus, Cytisus multiflorus, white Spanish broom, white broom
low European broom having trifoliate leaves and yellowish-white flowers; Cytisus scoparius, Scotch broom, common broom, green broom
deciduous erect spreading broom native to western Europe; widely cultivated for its rich yellow flowers; Genista anglica, broom tree, needle furze, petty whin
prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe; Genista hispanica, Spanish broom, Spanish gorse
erect shrub of southwestern Europe having racemes of golden yellow flowers; Genista tinctoria, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, woodwaxen
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; Spanish broom, Spartium junceum, weaver's broom
tall thornless shrub having pale yellow flowers and flexible rushlike twigs used in basketry; of southwestern Europe and Mediterranean; naturalized in California

Type of:: bush, shrub
a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

Type of:: heath
a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers

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