SPARTIUM JUNCEUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Spartium junceum mean? 

• SPARTIUM JUNCEUM (noun)
  The noun SPARTIUM JUNCEUM has 1 sense:

1. tall thornless shrub having pale yellow flowers and flexible rushlike twigs used in basketry; of southwestern Europe and Mediterranean; naturalized in California

  Familiarity information: SPARTIUM JUNCEUM used as a noun is very rare.

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• SPARTIUM JUNCEUM (noun)

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Meaning:

Tall thornless shrub having pale yellow flowers and flexible rushlike twigs used in basketry; of southwestern Europe and Mediterranean; naturalized in California

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Spanish broom; Spartium junceum; weaver's broom

Hypernyms ("Spartium junceum" is a kind of...):

broom (any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers)

Holonyms ("Spartium junceum" is a member of...):

genus Spartium; Spartium (one species: Spanish broom)