cytisus

plural cytisuses

1. Any flowering plant in the genus Cytisus.

   The humming birds, which swarmed round the flowering cytisus and the beautiful water-fall, once more delighted the eye and the ear.

   1827, George Tucker, A Voyage to the Moon

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   The goats eat cytisus and myrtle on the shore; a whole flock gathered round me as I sat beneath a tuft of golden green euphorbia the other day, and nibbled bread from my hands.

   1914, John Symonds, Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete

   His head leaning back on the cushions, his arms folded across his breast, Lavretsky gazed at the furrowed plains which opened fanwise before him, at the cytisus shrubs, at the crows and rooks which looked sideways at the passing carriage with dull suspicion, at the long ridges planted with mugwort, wormwood, and mountain ash.

   1873, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Liza