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• purple broom

  n. See broom. ...

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• Purple

  ·adj Blood-red; bloody. II. Purple ·noun Any shell of the genus Purpura. III. Purple ·noun ·see <<...

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• Broom

  ·vt ·see <<Bream>>. II. Broom ·noun An implement for sweeping floors, ·etc., commonly made of the p...

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• broom

  n. name applied to the plant Calycothrix tetragona, Lab., N.O. Myrtaceae. ...

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• broom

  A besom at the mast-head signifies that the ship is to be sold: derived probably from the old practi...

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• purple berry

  n. Tasmanian name for Billardiera longiflora, Lab., N.O. Pittosporeae.See Pittosporum. 1880. Mrs. ...

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• purple coot

  n. another name for the Swamp-Hen (q.v.). ...

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• purple fig

  n. See under fig-tree. ...

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• Broom corn

  ·- A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ...

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• Broom rape

  ·- A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, ha...

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• Butcher's broom

  ·- A genus of plants (Ruscus); ·esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches...

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• Green-broom

  ·noun A plant of the genus Genista (G. tinctoria); dyer's weed; — called also greenweed. ...

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• broom, native

  n. an Australian timber, Viminaria denudala, Smith, N.O. Leguminosae. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful ...

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• native broom

  n. See broom. ...

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• rush-broom

  n. Australian name for theindigenous shrub Viminaria denudata, Sm., N.O. Leguminosae. The flowers a...

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• swamp-broom

  n. a rush-broom, Viminariadenudata, Sm., N.O. Leguminosae.See swamp-oak. ...

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• tea-broom

  n. a New Zealand name for the Tea-tree (q.v.). 1872. A. Domett, `Ranolf,' [Notes] p. 505: «Manuka...

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• broom-corn

  (Sorghum saccharatum.) A species of corn which grows from six to eight feet high, from the tufts of ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• corn-broom

  Brooms made from the tops of a species of corn, called broom-corn. ...

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