Word

broom, n.
(brooms)
freq. cnt. 3

a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
<noun.artifact> freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 3

broom

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

broom

semantic pointers

hyponym

besom push broom whisk, whisk broom

hypernym

cleaning implement, cleaning device, cleaning equipment

part meronym

broomstick, broom handle

common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
<noun.plant>

Calluna vulgaris Scots heather broom heather ling

semantic pointers

hypernym

heath

member holonym

Calluna, genus Calluna

any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
<noun.plant>

broom

semantic pointers

member holonym

Papilionoideae, subfamily Papilionoideae

hyponym

weeping tree broom white broom, white Spanish broom, Cytisus albus, Cytisus multiflorus common broom, Scotch broom, green broom, Cytisus scoparius broom tree, needle furze, petty whin, Genista anglica Spanish broom, Spanish gorse, Genista hispanica woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria Spanish broom, weaver's broom, Spartium junceum

hypernym

bush, shrub