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broom bush

noun

Etymology

From broom + bush.

  1. derived from *bʰuH-✻ — “to grow”
  2. inherited from *buskaz✻ — “bush, thicket”
  3. inherited from *busk✻
  4. inherited from *busċ✻
  5. inherited from bush
  6. compounded as broom bush — “broom + bush”

Definitions

  1. Various taxa of Genisteae traditionally used to make brooms.

  2. Melaleuca uncinata, a plant in the paperbark family, native to southern Australia.

    • For about twenty-five miles we traversed an entirely open plain, similar to that just described, and mostly covered with the waving broom bushes; […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA