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broom

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: broom

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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
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n
any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
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common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: broom
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n a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle

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

v sweep with a broom or as if with a broom

Synonyms:
sweep
sweep
clean by sweeping
Type of:
pass over, wipe
rub with a circular motion

v finish with a broom

Type of:
finish
provide with a finish
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n any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers

Types:
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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
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n common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere

Synonyms:
Calluna vulgaris, Scots heather, heather, ling
Type of:
heath
a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers
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