Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A species of Corchorus, C. siliquosus, of tropical America, used for making brooms.

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  • noun annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers

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Examples

  • I have had to shootthrough mesquite trees, broomweed, prickly pear patches, etc. at apatch that I knew was a deer, knewwas the right deer, but just neverwould pause long enough to offer ashot out in the open.

    Paper Versus Meat 2008

  • Match weed or broomweed, scurf-pea, sunflowers, goldenrods, and ragweed occur from Oklahoma into Canada.

    Great Plains Steppe Province (Bailey) 2009

  • Hanging upside down beside the door of a thatch-roofed seamstress 'shop was a bunch of what looked almost like broomweed, with tiny yellow flowers, the stalks wrapped their whole length in a white ribbon, then tied with a dangling yellow one.

    The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993

  • There have been reports of some stillbirths in goats due to consumption of greening broomweed.

    The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:Today's Headlines 2010

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