Broom (Noun)

Meaning ¹

A cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle.

Classification

Nouns denoting man-made objects.

Hypernyms

• Cleaning Equipment
• Cleaning Device

Hyponyms

• Whisk Broom

Related Words

• Broom (verb)

Meaning ²

Any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers.

Classification

Nouns denoting plants.

Hypernyms

• Bush

Hyponyms

• Genista Tinctoria
• Woadwaxen
• Spanish Gorse
• Spartium Junceum
• Scotch Broom
• Dyer's-broom
• Green Broom
• Genista Anglica
• Dyeweed
• Cytisus Scoparius
• Genista Hispanica
• Petty Whin
• Whin
• White Spanish Broom
• Cytisus Multiflorus
• Weaver's Broom
• Needle Furze
• Cytisus Albus
• Dyer's Greenweed
• Greenweed

Meaning ³

Common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere.

Classification

Nouns denoting plants.

Synonyms

• Heather
• Calluna Vulgaris
• Scots Heather
• Ling

Hypernyms

• Heath