Broom

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An implement used for sweeping, usually consisting of a bunch of twigs, straw, or bristles bound together and attached to a stick or handle.
  • n. Any of various Mediterranean shrubs of the genus Cytisus in the pea family, especially C. scoparius, having mostly compound leaves with three leaflets and showy, usually bright yellow flowers.
  • n. Any of several similar or related shrubs, especially in the genera Genista and Spartium.
  • v. To sweep with or as if with a broom.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
  • n. An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a broom or sweeper.
  • n. Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Leguminosae, in the genera Cytisus and Genista, with long, thin branches and small or few leaves.
  • v. To sweep.
  • v. Alternative form of bream (to clean a ship's bottom)
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.
  • v. See bream.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The popular name of several plants, mostly leguminous shrubs, characterized by long, slender branches and numerous yellow flowers.
  • n. A besom, or brush with a long handle, for sweeping floors, etc.: so called from being originally made of the broom-plant.
  • To sweep, or clear away, as with a broom.
  • Same as bream.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. finish with a broom
  • v. sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
  • n. any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
  • n. common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
  • n. a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    finish    wipe    Passover    heath   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    bream   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    brush    besom    wisp    pope's head    whisk    whisker    wing   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bloom    Blum    Blume    Doom    Hume    Khartoum    abloom    assume    bloom    boom   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    mop    shovel    gorse    brush    heather    fern    hoe    brushwood    bucket    rake