| 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 |
| push broom | a wide broom that is pushed ahead of the sweeper |
whisk
whisk broom | a small short-handled broom used to brush clothes |
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 |
| broom | finish with a broom |
sweep
broom | sweep with a broom or as if with a broom, Sweep the crumbs off the table, Sweep under the bed |