WHITE BROOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white broom mean? 

• WHITE BROOM (noun)
  The noun WHITE BROOM has 1 sense:

1. low European broom having trifoliate leaves and yellowish-white flowers

  Familiarity information: WHITE BROOM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE BROOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Low European broom having trifoliate leaves and yellowish-white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cytisus albus; Cytisus multiflorus; white broom; white Spanish broom

Hypernyms ("white 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 ("white broom" is a member of...):

Cytisus; genus Cytisus (large genus of stiff or spiny evergreen or deciduous Old World shrubs: broom)