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Noun broom has 3 senses
- broom - a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
--1 is a kind of cleaning implement
--1 has parts: broomstick, broom handle
--1 has particulars: besom; push broom; whisk, whisk broom
- broom - any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
--2 is a kind of shrub, bush
--2 is a member of Papilionoideae, subfamily Papilionoideae
--2 has particulars: | | weeping tree broom; white broom, white Spanish broom, Cytisus albus, Cytisus multiflorus; common broom, Scotch broom, green broom, Cytisus scoparius; broom tree, needle furze, petty whin, Genista anglica; Spanish broom, Spanish gorse, Genista hispanica; woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria; Spanish broom, weaver's broom, Spartium junceum |
- heather, ling, Scots heather, broom, Calluna vulgaris - common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
--3 is a kind of heath
--3 is a member of Calluna, genus Calluna
Verb broom has 2 senses
- sweep, broom - sweep with a broom or as if with a broom; "Sweep the crumbs off the table"; "Sweep under the bed"
--1 is one way to wipe, pass over
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
- broom - finish with a broom
--2 is one way to finish
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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