Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A shrubby composite, Baccharis scoparia, of the mountains of Jamaica, broom-like from its slender, densely crowded, almost leafless branchlets.

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Examples

  • A syringa was planted in front, and a broom-tree on the right united it with the willow; in the middle there was a deal table.

    Camilla 2008

  • A syringa was planted in front, and a broom-tree on the right united it with the willow; in the middle there was a deal table.

    Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 1796

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