broom vs heath
heath vs broombroom and heath both are nouns.
broom is a verb but heath is not a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| broom | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| heath | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
heath is a hypernym of
broom; that is, heath is a
word with a broader meaning than broom:
- broom: common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere
- heath: a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers
| broom (noun) | heath (noun) |
|---|---|
| a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle | a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation |
| any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers | a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers |
| common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere |
| broom (verb) | heath (verb) |
|---|---|
| sweep with a broom or as if with a broom | |
| finish with a broom |
Words related to "broom"
- Calluna
- Calluna vulgaris
- Cytisus albus
- Cytisus multiflorus
- Cytisus scoparius
- Genista anglica
- Genista hispanica
- Genista tinctoria
- Papilionoideae
- Scotch broom
- Scots heather
- Spanish broom
- Spanish gorse
- Spartium junceum
- besom
- broom handle
- broom tree
- broomstick
- bush
- cleaning device
- cleaning equipment
- cleaning implement
- common broom
- dyer's greenweed
- dyer's-broom
- dyeweed
- finish
- genus Calluna
- green broom
- greenweed
- heath
- heather
- ling
- needle furze
- pass over
- petty whin
- push broom
- shrub
- subfamily Papilionoideae
- sweep
- weaver's broom
- weeping tree broom
- whin
- whisk
- whisk broom
- white Spanish broom
- white broom
- wipe
- woadwaxen
- woodwaxen
Words related to "heath"
- Brewer's mountain heather
- Britain
- Bruckenthalia spiculifolia
- Bryanthus taxifolius
- Calluna vulgaris
- Cassiope mertensiana
- Connemara heath
- Daboecia cantabrica
- Ericaceae
- Great Britain
- Phyllodoce breweri
- Phyllodoce caerulea
- Scots heather
- St. Dabeoc's heath
- U.K.
- UK
- United Kingdom
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- barren
- broom
- bush
- erica
- family Ericaceae
- heath family
- heather
- heathland
- ling
- mountain heath
- purple heather
- shrub
- spike heath
- true heath
- waste
- wasteland
- white heather
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