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broom bush

broom bush noun: various taxa of Genisteae traditionally used to make brooms.

broom bush: various taxa of Genisteae traditionally used to make brooms
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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
alternative formbroom-bush
alternative formbroombush

Origin of broom bush

From broom + bush.

Questions about broom bush

What does broom bush mean?
Broom bush means various taxa of Genisteae traditionally used to make brooms.
What part of speech is broom bush?
Broom bush is a noun.
What is the plural of broom bush?
The plural of broom bush is broom bushes.

Words near broom bush in the dictionary

  1. Brookwood
  2. brooky
  3. brool
  4. brools
  5. broom
  6. broom bush
  7. broom bushes
  8. broom closet
  9. broom closets
  10. broom corn
  11. broom corns

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