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Definition of Spanish broom

1. Noun. Tall thornless shrub having pale yellow flowers and flexible rushlike twigs used in basketry; of southwestern Europe and Mediterranean; naturalized in California.

2. Noun. Erect shrub of southwestern Europe having racemes of golden yellow flowers.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spanish Broom

Spanish Arabic Spanish Armada Spanish Civil War Spanish Guinea Spanish Inquisition Spanish Main Spanish Netherlands Spanish Sahara Spanish Sign Language Spanish Town

Spanish Virgin Islands Spanish War Spanish Water Dog Spanish Water Dogs Spanish bayonet Spanish broom (current term) Spanish burgoo Spanish capital Spanish cedar Spanish cedar tree

Spanish chestnut Spanish chestnuts Spanish dagger Spanish donkey Spanish donkeys Spanish elm Spanish fever Spanish flu Spanish fly Spanish garlic

Literary usage of Spanish broom

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool, and Other Fibrous Substances by Clinton G. Gilroy (1845)
"Authority for Spanish broom—Stipa Tenacissima—Cloth made from Broom- bark—Albania—Italy—France—.Mode of preparing the fibre for weaving— Pliny's account of ..."

2. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1854)
"In 1746, Mr. Collinson received the first double Spanish broom from Mr. Brewer of Nuremberg. In 1756, the famous tulip tree in Lord Peterborough's garden at ..."

3. A History of English Gardening, Chronological, Biographical, Literary, and by George William Johnson (1829)
"... 2—Bastard Senna 3—Spanish broom—Virginian Silk—Privet—Variegated Sage—Marjoram 3—Lavender 3—Lavender Cotton—Basil 3—Thyme 4—Hyssop 5—Variegated Grass 3. ..."

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