dyer's-broom

1. 1.

   small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental

   Synonymswoodwaxendyer's greenweeddyeweedgreenweedwhinwoadwaxenGenista tinctoria

   Broaderbroom

   Part ofGenista

Questions about dyer's-broom

What does dyer's-broom mean?

dyer's-broom means "small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental".

How many syllables are in dyer's-broom?

dyer's-broom has 2 syllables: dyer's--broom. The stress falls on "dyer's-".

What is another word for dyer's-broom?

Close synonyms include woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyeweed, greenweed, whin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dyer's-broom a common word?

dyer's-broom is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.