Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
greenbroom .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) See
greenbroom .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
plants , of the genusGenista , related tobroom
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small 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
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Examples
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And nothing for her own streamer hooks but greenweed or flotsam.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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And nothing for her own streamer hooks but greenweed or flotsam.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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And nothing for her own streamer hooks but greenweed or flotsam.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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At Sticky Wicket in Dorset, Pam Lewis made her meadow garden by collecting seed from ragged robin, trefoil, mignonette, knapweed, yellow rattle, meadow buttercup and dyer's greenweed.
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