Reference meaning

broom

noun·Reference

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a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle

Other meanings

2. noun

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

3. noun

common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere

4. verb

sweep with a broom or as if with a broom

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