Meaning of broom bush | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Various taxa of Genisteae traditionally used to make brooms.
   countable, uncountable
2. Melaleuca uncinata, a plant in the paperbark family, native to southern Australia.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“Your box ſhall be ſent next week by ſea. You will find⟳ in it some pieces of the broom buſh, which you ſaw growing on the old caſtle of Auchinleck. The wood has a curious appearance when ſawn acroſs. You may either have⟳ a little writing-stand made of it, or get⟳ it formed into boards for a treatiſe on witchcraft, by way of a ſuitable binding.”

“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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