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broom tree

noun

prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe

• Syn: ↑needle furze, ↑petty whin, ↑Genista anglica

• Hypernyms: ↑broom

• Member Holonyms: ↑Genista, ↑genus Genista

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noun

Etymology: so called from its broomlike appearance

1. : a shrub (Baccharis scoparia) of Jamaica

2. : a yellow-flowered prickly shrub (Genista anglica) found on the moors of northern Europe and England

Useful english dictionary. 2012.