butcher's broom Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun shrub with stiff flattened stems resembling leaves (cladophylls); used for making brooms
    Ruscus aculeatus.

WordNet

Butch"er's broom`
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.

Webster 1913