broom : Idioms & Phrases

• noun handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn
  Schizachyrium scoparium; wire grass; prairie grass; Andropogon scoparius.
  

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• noun a small room for storing brooms and other cleaning equipment
  

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Broom" corn`

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1. (Bot.) A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.

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• noun any of several grasses of the genus Andropogon; used in broom making
  

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• noun the handle of a broom
  broomstick.
  

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• noun small palm of southern Florida and West Indies closely resembling the silvertop palmetto
  thatch tree; silver thatch; thatch palm; Thrinax parviflora.
  

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Broom" rape`

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1. (Bot.) A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand A. Ludovicianum.

Webster 1913

• noun tall tufted grass of southeastern United States
  Andropogon virginicus.
  

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• noun low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads
  Gutierrezia sarothrae; rabbit-weed; rabbitweed; snakeweed; broom snakeroot; turpentine weed.
  

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• noun low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads
  Gutierrezia sarothrae; rabbit-weed; rabbitweed; snakeweed; broom snakeroot; turpentine weed.
  

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• noun prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe
  Genista anglica; needle furze; petty whin.
  

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• noun annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers
  Gutierrezia texana; broomweed.
  

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

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• a plant (Ruscus aculeatus) of the Smilax family, used by butchers for brooms to sweep their blocks; called also knee holly. See Cladophyll.

Webster 1913

• noun widely spreading evergreen shrub of southwestern United States with flower heads in a leafy panicle
  coyote bush; kidney wort; coyote brush; Baccharis pilularis.
  

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• noun deciduous erect spreading broom native to western Europe; widely cultivated for its rich yellow flowers
  green broom; common broom; Cytisus scoparius.
  

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• a species of mignonette (Reseda luteola), used for dyeing yellow; dyer's weed; dyer's rocket.

Webster 1913

• . See Dyer's broom, under Broom.

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• noun 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
  whin; dyer's greenweed; woadwaxen; dyeweed; woodwaxen; greenweed; Genista tinctoria.
  

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• a coarse of broom, originally made of flags or rushes.

Webster 1913

• noun deciduous erect spreading broom native to western Europe; widely cultivated for its rich yellow flowers
  green broom; common broom; Cytisus scoparius.
  

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Green"-broom` noun

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1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Genista (G. tinctoria); dyer's weed; -- called also greenweed.

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• noun much-branched erect herb with bright yellow flowers; distributed from Massachusetts to Florida
  rattle weed; Baptisia tinctoria; horsefly weed.
  

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• noun a wide broom that is pushed ahead of the sweeper
  

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• an Australian leguminous plant (Viminaria denudata), having long, slender branches. Also, the Spanish broom. See under Candle.

Webster 1913

• noun deciduous erect spreading broom native to western Europe; widely cultivated for its rich yellow flowers
  green broom; common broom; Cytisus scoparius.
  

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• (Bot.), the Cytisus scoparius. See Broom.

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• noun tall thornless shrub having pale yellow flowers and flexible rushlike twigs used in basketry; of southwestern Europe and Mediterranean; naturalized in California
  Spanish broom; Spartium junceum.
  
• noun erect shrub of southwestern Europe having racemes of golden yellow flowers
  Spanish gorse; Genista hispanica.
  

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• (Bot.), a leguminous shrub (Spartium junceum) having many green flexible rushlike twigs.

Webster 1913

• (Bot.), a shrub that produces thorns.

Webster 1913

• noun tall thornless shrub having pale yellow flowers and flexible rushlike twigs used in basketry; of southwestern Europe and Mediterranean; naturalized in California
  Spanish broom; Spartium junceum.
  

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• noun small shrubby tree of New Zealand having weeping branches and racemes of white to violet flowers followed by woolly indehiscent two-seeded pods
  

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• noun a small short-handled broom used to brush clothes
  whisk.
  

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• noun low European broom having trifoliate leaves and yellowish-white flowers
  Cytisus multiflorus; Cytisus albus; white broom.
  

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• noun low European broom having trifoliate leaves and yellowish-white flowers
  Cytisus multiflorus; Cytisus albus; white broom.
  

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• noun an abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance
  witch broom; staghead; hexenbesen.
  

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• noun an abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance
  witch broom; staghead; hexenbesen.
  

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