| broom | 1. <botany> A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; especially, the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, mintue leaves, and large yellow flowers. "No gypsy cowered o'er fires of furze and broom." (Wordsworth) 2. An implement for sweeping floors, etc, commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom. Butcher's broom, a plant (Ruscus aculeatus) of the Smilax family, used by butchers for brooms to sweep their blocks; called also knee holly. See Cladophyll. Dyer's broom, a species of mignonette (Reseda luteola), used for dyeing yellow; dyer's weed; dyer's rocket. Spanish broom. See Spanish. Origin: OE. Brom, brome, AS. Brom; akin to LG. Bram, D. Brem, OHG. Bramo broom, thornbush, G. Brombeere blackberry. Cf. Bramble. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| broom corn | <botany> 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| broom rape | <botany> 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| broom-like | <botany> Describes a plant which has many branches parallel or almost so and usually erect. (09 Oct 1997) |
| butcher's broom | <botany> A genus of plants (Ruscus); especially. R. Aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| green-broom | <botany> A plant of the genus Genista (G. Tinctoria); dyer's weed. Synonym: greenweed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers sweep: sweep with a broom or as if with a broom; "Sweep the crumbs off the table"; "Sweep under the bed" heather: common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere finish with a broom
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Brooms are a group of evergreen, semi-evergreen, and deciduous shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the legume family Fabaceae, mainly in the two genera Cytisus and Genista, but also in five other small genera (see box, right). All genera in this group are from the tribe Cytiseae. These genera are all closely related and share similar characters of dense, slender green stems and very small leaves, adaptations to dry growing conditions. ...
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In plant pathology: A symptom in which lateral branches proliferate in a dense cluster on the main branch (witches'-broom). (21)
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T-shaped spray lance with nozzles on cross-piece.
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Cytisus scoparius (L.) Link (family Fabaceae) DESCRIPTION: A large shrub with compound leaves that have three leaflets. The yellow, purple, or white flowers are solitary or in small clusters. The fruit is a small pod. RANGE: Grows on the Atlantic coast and in the Pacific Northwest, extensively. APPLICATION: Acts as a diuretic, due to having a flavone glycoside scoparoside. Its most common use has been as an alternative to marijuana as a mind-altering agent. ...
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| broom | a cleaning implement for sweeping |
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| broom | common Old World heath represented by many varieties |
| broom | any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers |
| broom | finish with a broom |
| broom | sweep with a broom or as if with a broom |
| broom | handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn |
| broom | a small room for storing brooms and other cleaning equipment |
| broom | any of several grasses of the genus Andropogon |
| broom | the handle of a broom |
| broom | small palm of southern Florida and West Indies closely resembling the silvertop palmetto |
| broom | tall tufted grass of southeastern United States |
| broom | low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads |
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