broom tree

broom tree
noun
prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe
Hypernyms: ↑broom
Member Holonyms: ↑Genista, ↑genus Genista

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noun
Etymology: so called from its broomlike appearance
1. : a shrub (Baccharis scoparia) of Jamaica
2. : a yellow-flowered prickly shrub (Genista anglica) found on the moors of northern Europe and England

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