WEAVER'S BROOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weaver's broom mean? 

• WEAVER'S BROOM (noun)
  The noun WEAVER'S BROOM 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: WEAVER'S BROOM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEAVER'S BROOM (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Spanish broom; Spartium junceum; weaver's broom

Hypernyms ("weaver's broom" 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 ("weaver's broom" is a member of...):

genus Spartium; Spartium (one species: Spanish broom)