broom

1. A cleaning implement for sweeping;
   Bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle (synset 102910059)
   is a type of: cleaning device, cleaning equipment, cleaning implement - any of a large class of implements used for cleaning
   subtypes:

   • besom - a broom made of twigs tied together on a long handle
   • push broom - a wide broom that is pushed ahead of the sweeper
   • whisk, whisk broom - a small short-handled broom used to brush clothes
   has: broom handle, broomstick - the handle of a broom
2. Any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers (synset 112541369)
   is a type of: bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
   subtypes:

   • weeping tree broom - small shrubby tree of New Zealand having weeping branches and racemes of white to violet flowers followed by woolly indehiscent two-seeded pods
   • cytisus albus, cytisus multiflorus, white broom, white spanish broom - low European broom having trifoliate leaves and yellowish-white flowers
   • common broom, cytisus scoparius, green broom, scotch broom - deciduous erect spreading broom native to western Europe; widely cultivated for its rich yellow flowers
   • broom tree, genista anglica, needle furze, petty whin - prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe
   • genista hispanica, spanish broom, spanish gorse - erect shrub of southwestern Europe having racemes of golden yellow flowers
   • dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, genista tinctoria, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, woodwaxen - small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental
   • spanish broom, spartium junceum, weaver's broom - tall thornless shrub having pale yellow flowers and flexible rushlike twigs used in basketry; of southwestern Europe and Mediterranean; naturalized in California
   belongs to: papilionoideae, subfamily papilionoideae - alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae
3. Common Old World heath represented by many varieties;
   Low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere (synset 112254046)
   is a type of: heath - a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers
   belongs to: calluna, genus calluna - one species
   same as: calluna vulgaris, heather, ling, scots heather

1. Sweep with a broom or as if with a broom (synset 201396368)
   "Sweep the crumbs off the table"; "Sweep under the bed"
   is a type of: pass over, wipe - rub with a circular motion
   same as: sweep
   verb group: sweep - clean by sweeping
2. Finish with a broom (synset 201268939)
   is a type of: finish - provide with a finish

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