yellow broom

plural yellow brooms

1. Any yellow-blooming plant of tribe Genisteae: subfamily Faboideae, especially
2. Any yellow-blooming plant of tribe Genisteae: subfamily Faboideae, especially:
   1. Cytisus scoparius.

      1861, Charlotte Guest, translator, The Mabinogion/The Dream of Rhonabwy. And the green of the caparison of the horse, and of his rider, was as green as the leaves of the fir-tree, and the yellow was as yellow as the blossom of the broom.

      Synonyms: common broom, English broom, Scotch broom, planta genista, yellow false indigo, wild indigo

3. USBaptisia tinctoria, of the tribe Thermopsideae: subfamily Faboideae.