broom

1. (verb) finish with a broom
Related Words: finish

2. (noun) for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
Related Words: besom, cleaning implement, push broom, whisk, whiskbroom

3. (noun) any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
Related Words: Cytisus albus, Cytisus multiflorus, Cytisus scoparius, Genista anglica, Genista hispanica, Genista tinctoria, Scotch broom, Spanish broom, Spanish gorse, Spartium junceum, broom tree, bush, common broom, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, green broom, greenweed, needle furze, petty whin, shrub, weaver's broom, weeping tree broom, whin, white Spanish broom, white broom, woadwaxen, woodwaxen

4. (verb) sweep with a broom or as if with a broom; "Sweep the crumbs off the table"; "Sweep under the bed"
Synonyms: sweep
Related Words: pass over, wipe

5. (noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
Synonyms: Calluna vulgaris, Scots heather, heather, ling
Related Words: heath



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