broom : Idioms & Phrases


broom beard grass

  • 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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broom closet

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

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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broom grass

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

  • noun the handle of a broom
    broomstick.
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broom palm

  • 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

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.
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broom sedge

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

  • 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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broom snakeweed

  • 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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broom tree

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

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

  • 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.
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chaparral broom

  • 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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common broom

  • 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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Dyer's broom

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

  • . See Dyer's broom, under Broom.
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dyer's-broom

  • 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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Flag broom

  • a coarse of broom, originally made of flags or rushes.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

  • 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

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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indigo broom

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

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

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

  • 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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Spanish broom

  • 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.
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Thorn broom

  • (Bot.), a shrub that produces thorns.
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weaver's broom

  • 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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weeping tree broom

  • 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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whisk broom

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

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

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

  • 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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witches' broom

  • 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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