| 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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| butcher | 1. To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs. 2. To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner. "[Ithocles] was murdered, rather butchered." (Ford) Origin: Butchered; . Butchering. 1. One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food. 2. A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle. "Butcher of an innocent child. <zoology>" Butcher bird, a species of shrike of the genus Lanius. The Lanius excubitor is the common butcher bird of Europe. In England, the bearded tit is sometimes called the lesser butcher bird. The American species are L.borealis, or northernbutcher bird, and L. Ludovicianus or loggerhead shrike. The name butcher birdis derived from its habit of suspending its prey impaled upon thorns, after killing it. Butcher's meat, such flesh of animals slaughtered for food as is sold for that purpose by butchers, as beef, mutton, lamb, and pork. Origin: OE. Bochere, bochier, OF. Bochier, F. Boucher, orig, slaughterer of buck goats, fr. OF. Boc, F. Bouc, a buck goat; of German or Celtic origin. See Buck the animal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| 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made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.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) |
| 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-like | <botany> Describes a plant which has many branches parallel or almost so and usually erect. (09 Oct 1997) |
| 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) |
| green-broom | <botany> A plant of the genus Genista (G. Tinctoria); dyer's weed. Synonym: greenweed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| butcher's broom |
shrub with stiff flattened stems resembling leaves (cladophylls); used for making brooms
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Botanical extract used to improve circulation and reduce facial redness. Also believed to have anti-cellulite effects.
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an herbal extract that typically contains 10% saponin glycosides as active components; historically used as an anti-inflammatory.
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