| 单词 | scotch broom |
| 释义 | > as lemmasScotch broom Scotch broom n. chiefly North American the common broom, Cytisus scoparius.The identity of the broom referred to in quot. 1798 is uncertain. ΚΠ 1798 W. F. Mavor Brit. Tourists I. 44 A chest of drawers made of Scotch broom, most elegantly striped, is a singular curiosity. 1806 T. Jefferson Garden Bk. (1944) 323 The upper third is chiefly open, but to the South is covered with a dense thicket of Scotch broom (Spartium scoparium Lin.) 1849 Genesee (Rochester, N.Y.) Farmer July 168/2 We may mention..the common or Scotch Broom—a shrub that grows six or eight feet high, small leaves and bright golden yellow flowers. 1928 J. Suzuki Creative Art Oct. 257 An example in mori-bana was arranged..using Scotch broom to give the central feature and supplementing it with daisies and lilies. 1997 T. Morrison Paradise 283 The rain's perfume was stronger north of Ruby, especially at the Convent, where thick white clover and Scotch broom colonized every place but the garden. < as lemmas |
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