broom | a cleaning implement for sweeping, bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle |
broom closet | a small room for storing brooms and other cleaning equipment |
broomstick broom handle | the handle of a broom |
china cabinet china closet | a cabinet (usually with glass doors) for storing and displaying china |
closet | a small private room for study or prayer |
closet auger | a snake used to unblock toilets |
clothes closet clothespress | a closet where clothes are stored |
coat closet | a closet for storing outerwear |
cupboard closet | a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space |
push broom | a wide broom that is pushed ahead of the sweeper |
supply closet | a closet for storing supplies |
wardrobe closet press | a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes, has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes |
water closet closet W.C. loo | a toilet in Britain |
whisk whisk broom | a small short-handled broom used to brush clothes |
closet drama | drama more suitable for reading that for performing |
skeleton skeleton in the closet skeleton in the cupboard | a scandal that is kept secret, there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet |
closet queen | a negative term for a homosexual man who chooses not to reveal his sexual orientation |
coyote brush coyote bush chaparral broom kidney wort Baccharis pilularis | widely spreading evergreen shrub of southwestern United States with flower heads in a leafy panicle |
rabbitweed rabbit-weed snakeweed broom snakeweed broom snakeroot turpentine weed Gutierrezia sarothrae | low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads |
broomweed broom-weed Gutierrezia texana | annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers |
broom grass | any of several grasses of the genus Andropogon, used in broom making |
broom sedge Andropogon virginicus | tall tufted grass of southeastern United States |
broom beard grass prairie grass wire grass Andropogon scoparius Schizachyrium scoparium | handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn |
heather ling Scots heather broom Calluna vulgaris | common Old World heath represented by many varieties, low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere |
butcher's broom Ruscus aculeatus | shrub with stiff flattened stems resembling leaves (cladophylls), used for making brooms |
indigo broom horsefly weed rattle weed Baptisia tinctoria | much-branched erect herb with bright yellow flowers, distributed from Massachusetts to Florida |
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 |
broom | any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers |
white broom white Spanish broom Cytisus albus Cytisus multiflorus | low European broom having trifoliate leaves and yellowish-white flowers |
common broom Scotch broom green broom Cytisus scoparius | deciduous erect spreading broom native to western Europe, widely cultivated for its rich yellow flowers |
witches' broom witch broom hexenbesen staghead | an abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance |
broom tree needle furze petty whin Genista anglica | prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe |
Spanish broom Spanish gorse Genista hispanica | erect shrub of southwestern Europe having racemes of golden yellow flowers |
woodwaxen dyer's greenweed dyer's-broom dyeweed greenweed whin woadwaxen Genista tinctoria | 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 weaver's broom Spartium junceum | tall thornless shrub having pale yellow flowers and flexible rushlike twigs used in basketry, of southwestern Europe and Mediterranean, naturalized in California |
thatch palm thatch tree silver thatch broom palm Thrinax parviflora | small palm of southern Florida and West Indies closely resembling the silvertop palmetto |
come out of the closet out come out | to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality, This actor outed last year |
broom | finish with a broom |
closet | confine to a small space, as for intensive work |
sweep broom | sweep with a broom or as if with a broom, Sweep the crumbs off the table, Sweep under the bed |