SPANISH BROOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Spanish broom mean? 

• SPANISH BROOM (noun)
  The noun SPANISH BROOM has 2 senses:

1. tall thornless shrub having pale yellow flowers and flexible rushlike twigs used in basketry; of southwestern Europe and Mediterranean; naturalized in California

2. erect shrub of southwestern Europe having racemes of golden yellow flowers

  Familiarity information: SPANISH BROOM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPANISH BROOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tall thornless shrub having pale yellow flowers and flexible rushlike twigs used in basketry; of southwestern Europe and Mediterranean; naturalized in California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Spanish broom; Spartium junceum; weaver's broom

Hypernyms ("Spanish broom" is a kind of...):

broom (any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers)

Holonyms ("Spanish broom" is a member of...):

genus Spartium; Spartium (one species: Spanish broom)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Erect shrub of southwestern Europe having racemes of golden yellow flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Genista hispanica; Spanish broom; Spanish gorse

Hypernyms ("Spanish broom" is a kind of...):

broom (any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers)

Holonyms ("Spanish broom" is a member of...):

Genista; genus Genista (chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom)