English > broom: 5 senses > noun 2, plant| Meaning | Any of various shrubs of the genera ... / genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers. |
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| Member of | Papilionoideae, subfamily Papilionoideae | Alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae |
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| Narrower | Spanish broom, Spanish gorse, Genista hispanica | Erect shrub of southwestern Europe having racemes of golden yellow flowers |
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| Spanish broom, weaver's broom, Spartium junceum | tall thornless shrub having pale yellow flowers and flexible rushlike twigs used in basketry |
| broom tree, needle furze, petty whin, Genista anglica | prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe |
| common broom, Scotch broom, green broom, Cytisus scoparius | deciduous erect spreading broom native to western Europe |
| weeping tree broom | small shrubby tree of New Zealand having weeping branches and racemes of white to violet flowers followed by woolly indehiscent two-seeded pods |
| white broom, white Spanish broom, Cytisus albus, Cytisus multiflorus | Low European broom having trifoliate leaves and yellowish-white flowers |
| woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria | small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye |
| Broader | shrub, bush | A low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems |
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| Spanish | hiniesta |
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