| Broom (n.) A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together |
| Broom (n.) An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle |
| Broom (v. t.) See Bream. |
| Broom corn () A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made. |
| Broom rape () A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand A. Ludovicianum. |
| Butcher's broom () A genus of plants (Ruscus) |
| Green-broom (n.) A plant of the genus Genista (G. tinctoria) |
| 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 |