| genista | (n) chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom, Syn. genus Genista |
| broom tree | (n) prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe, Syn. needle furze, Genista anglica, petty whin |
| retem | (n) desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista, Syn. juniper, Retama raetam, juniper bush, Genista raetam, raetam |
| spanish broom | (n) erect shrub of southwestern Europe having racemes of golden yellow flowers, Syn. Spanish gorse, Genista hispanica |
| woodwaxen | (n) 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, Syn. woadwaxen, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, greenweed, whin, dyer's greenweed |