单词 | broom |
释义 | broom (once / 1086 pages) 1nv 2n 3n WORD FAMILY broom: broomed, brooming, brooms USAGE EXAMPLESThink: the march of the brooms in Fantasia. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) That was until a human rights charity alerted the UK government to his “pharmaceutical broom closet of death”. The Guardian(Dec 27, 2016) Right, because the various strains of Christian clerics at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher don’t sometimes attack one another with brooms? The Guardian(Dec 21, 2016) 1 1n a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle Hypo|Hyper besom a broom made of twigs tied together on a long handle push brooma wide broom that is pushed ahead of the sweeper whisk, whisk brooma small short-handled broom used to brush clothes cleaning device, cleaning equipment, cleaning implement any of a large class of implements used for cleaning 2v sweep with a broom or as if with a broom Syn|Hyper sweep sweep clean by sweeping pass over, wipe rub with a circular motion 3v finish with a broom 2Hyper finish provide with a finish n any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers 3Hypo|Hyper weeping tree broom small shrubby tree of New Zealand having weeping branches and racemes of white to violet flowers followed by woolly indehiscent two-seeded pods Cytisus albus, Cytisus multiflorus, white Spanish broom, white broomlow European broom having trifoliate leaves and yellowish-white flowers Cytisus scoparius, Scotch broom, common broom, green broomdeciduous erect spreading broom native to western Europe; widely cultivated for its rich yellow flowers Genista anglica, broom tree, needle furze, petty whinprickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe Genista hispanica, Spanish broom, Spanish gorseerect shrub of southwestern Europe having racemes of golden yellow flowers Genista tinctoria, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, woodwaxensmall Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental Spanish broom, Spartium junceum, weaver's broomtall thornless shrub having pale yellow flowers and flexible rushlike twigs used in basketry; of southwestern Europe and Mediterranean; naturalized in California bush, shrub a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems n common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere Syn|Hyper Calluna vulgaris, Scots heather, heather, ling heath a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers |
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