1. Noun
A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers.
2. Noun
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made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.
3. Verb
See Bream.
4. Noun
common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere
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5. Noun
any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
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