yellow broom

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yellow broom (plural yellow brooms)

  1. Any yellow-blooming plant of tribe Genisteae: subfamily Faboideae, especially:
    1. Cytisus scoparius.
      • 1861, Charlotte Guest, translator, The Mabinogion/The Dream of Rhonabwy.
        And the green of the caparison of the horse, and of his rider, was as green as the leaves of the fir-tree, and the yellow was as yellow as the blossom of the broom.
  2. (US) Baptisia tinctoria, of the tribe Thermopsideae: subfamily Faboideae.

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