Broom

[bruːm] or [brum]

解释:

(noun.) a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle.

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

(verb.) finish with a broom.

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解释:

(n.) A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers.

(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made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.

(v. t.) See Bream.

手打:瓦内萨

同义词及近义词：

n. Besom.

整理:内莉

解释:

n. a name given to a number of species of shrubs of the closely allied genera Cytisus Genista and Spartium: a besom made of its twigs.—v.t. to sweep with a broom.—ns. Broom′-corn a species of plant resembling maize cultivated for its seed and its spikes of which brooms are made; Broom′-rape a parasitic plant found adhering to the root of broom clover &c.; Broom′staff Broom′stick the staff or handle of a broom.—adj. Broom′y abounding in or consisting of broom.—To marry over the broomstick or To jump the besom to go through an irregular form of marriage in which both jump over a broomstick.

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