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genista
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Genista is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae , native to open habitats such as moorland and pasture in Europe and western Asia. They include species commonly called broom , though the term may also refer to other genera, including ...
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Genista \Ge*nis"ta\, prop. n. [L., broom.] (Bot.) A genus of plants including the common broom of Western Europe.
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) Any member of the flowering plant genus ''Genista''.
Usage examples of genista.
Their scent tinted the air, joining smells of dust, dew, the blue genista and red poppies that starred the long silky grass by the roadside verge, the scarlet cornflowers spangled through the undulating fields of wheat and clover.
The generic name Cytisus is said to be a corruption of the name of a Greek island, Cythnus, where Broom abounded, though it is probable that the Broom known to the ancients, and mentioned by Pliny and by Virgil under the name of Genista, was another species, the Spanish Broom, Spartium junceum, as the Common Broom is in Greece and not found in Southern and Eastern Europe, being chiefly a native of Western, Northern and Central Europe.