Definition of Broom

1. Verb. Sweep with a broom or as if with a broom. "Sweep under the bed"

Exact synonyms: Sweep
Generic synonyms: Pass Over, Wipe
Related verbs: Sweep
Derivative terms: Sweeper, Sweeper, Sweeping

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

3. Verb. Finish with a broom.
Generic synonyms: Finish

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

5. Noun. Common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere.
Exact synonyms: Calluna Vulgaris, Heather, Ling, Scots Heather
Generic synonyms: Heath
Group relationships: Calluna, Genus Calluna

Definition of Broom

1. n. A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers.

2. v. t. See Bream.

Definition of Broom

1. Noun. A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping. ¹

2. Noun. (curling) An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a ''broom'' or ''sweeper''. ¹

3. Noun. (botany) Any of several shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae. ¹

4. Noun. (botany) Heather, especially common heather, ''Calluna vulgaris''. ¹

5. Verb. To sweep. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Broom

1. to sweep [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: sweep

Medical Definition of Broom

1. 1. A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; especially, the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, mintue leaves, and large yellow flowers. "No gypsy cowered o'er fires of furze and broom." (Wordsworth) 2. An implement for sweeping floors, etc, commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom. Butcher's broom, a plant (Ruscus aculeatus) of the Smilax family, used by butchers for brooms to sweep their blocks; called also knee holly. See Cladophyll. Dyer's broom, a species of mignonette (Reseda luteola), used for dyeing yellow; dyer's weed; dyer's rocket. Spanish broom. See Spanish. Origin: OE. Brom, brome, AS. Brom; akin to LG. Bram, D. Brem, OHG. Bramo broom, thornbush, G. Brombeere blackberry. Cf. Bramble. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Broom

brookies
brooking
brookite
brookites
brooklet
brooklets
brooklike
brooklime
brooklimes
brookside
brooksides
brookweed
brookweeds
brool
brools
broom (current term)
broom-like
broom-weed
broom closet
broom corn
broom handle
broom palm
broom rape
broom sedge
broom snakeroot
broom snakeweed
broom tree
broom wagon

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