BUTCHER'S BROOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does butcher's broom mean? 

• BUTCHER'S BROOM (noun)
  The noun BUTCHER'S BROOM has 1 sense:

1. shrub with stiff flattened stems resembling leaves (cladophylls); used for making brooms

  Familiarity information: BUTCHER'S BROOM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUTCHER'S BROOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrub with stiff flattened stems resembling leaves (cladophylls); used for making brooms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

butcher's broom; Ruscus aculeatus

Hypernyms ("butcher's broom" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("butcher's broom" is a member of...):

genus Ruscus; Ruscus (a genus of European evergreen shrubs; sometimes placed in family Asparagaceae)