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broom-bush

broom-bush is the alternative form of broom bush.

Meaning of broom bush

Noun

broom bush (countable and uncountable, plural broom bushes)

  1. Various taxa of Genisteae traditionally used to make brooms.
    • Your box ſhall be ſent next week by ſea. You will find in it some pieces of the broom buſh, which you ſaw growing on the old caſtle of Auchinleck. The wood has a curious appearance when ſawn acroſs. You may either have a little writing-stand made of it, or get it formed into boards for a treatiſe...1791, James Boswell, “[1773]”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume I, London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC, page 429
  2. Melaleuca uncinata, a plant in the paperbark family, native to southern Australia.
    • For about twenty-five miles we traversed an entirely open plain, similar to that just described, and mostly covered with the waving broom bushes; […]1889, Ernest Giles, Australia Twice Traversed

Forms of broom-bush

pluralbroom-bushes

Questions about broom-bush

What is broom-bush the alternative form of?
Broom-bush is the alternative form of broom bush.

Words near broom-bush in the dictionary

  1. broom sedges
  2. broom spurge
  3. broom up
  4. broom wagon
  5. broom wagons
  6. broom-bush
  7. broom-bushes
  8. broom-clean
  9. broom-rape
  10. broom-rapes
  11. Broomall

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