| NOUN | plant | Genista, genus Genista | chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia |
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| Meaning | chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom. | |
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| Synonym | genus Genista | |
| Member of | Papilionoideae, subfamily Papilionoideae | Alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae |
| Members | Spanish broom, Spanish gorse, Genista hispanica | Erect shrub of southwestern Europe having racemes of golden yellow flowers |
| broom tree, needle furze, petty whin, Genista anglica | prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe | |
| 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 | rosid dicot genus | A genus of dicotyledonous plants |
| Spanish | genista, genus genista, retama | |
| Catalan | genista, genus genista | |
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