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yellow broom en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. Any yellow-blooming plant of tribe Genisteae: subfamily Faboideae, especially
  2. Any yellow-blooming plant of tribe Genisteae: subfamily Faboideae, especially: ▸ Cytisus scoparius.
    • 1861, Charlotte Guest, translator, The Mabinogion/The Dream of Rhonabwy. And the green of the caparison of the horse, and of his rider, was as green as the leaves of the fir-tree, and the yellow was as yellow as the blossom of the broom.
  3. (US) Baptisia tinctoria, of the tribe Thermopsideae: subfamily Faboideae.

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Deriveds

Portuguese yellow broom

Synonyms

common broom (Cytisus scoparius) · yellow false indigo · planta genista (Cytisus scoparius) · Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius) · English broom (Cytisus scoparius) · wild indigo