🌾 A coarse grass 🪶 Dried stalks 🧹 A straw broom

broomstraw

9.9

Dried stalks of coarse grass that people use to make brooms or brushes

noun
/ˈbrumˌstrɔ/

: paja

The villagers gathered broomstraw from the fields to make traditional sweeping brooms.

Examples

She learned how to bind broomstraw into sturdy brushes from her grandmother.
Old barns often have bundles of broomstraw stored in the rafters for future use.
She bought some broomstraw to make a new broom.
The broomstraws were used to create a rustic decoration.
The villagers gathered broomstraw from the fields to make traditional sweeping brooms.
Old barns often have bundles of broomstraw stored in the rafters for future use.
She learned how to bind broomstraw into sturdy brushes from her grandmother.

Synonyms

straw

vsbroomstraw

79 1.0

Dried stalks of grain plants used for animal bedding and making things

is coarser dried stalks used mainly to make brushes and sweepers

broom grass

vsbroomstraw

7.7

A tall grass used to make brooms

is the general dried stalk material used to make brushes

broomcorn

vsbroomstraw

Specialized

9.9

A tall grain plant with stiff seed heads that people use to make brooms and brushes

is the general dried stalk material rather than that cultivated crop

broom sedge

vsbroomstraw

9.0

A tall grass that grows in many clumps in old fields in the southeastern United States

is the dried stalk material used for making brushes rather than naming a species

Andropogon virginicus

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Specialized

9.9

A tall grass that grows in clumps in the southeastern United States and people call broomsedge

is the dried stalk material used to make brushes rather than a plant name

Surface Forms

broomstraw singular

broomstrawws plural

Morphology

broomstraw = broom + straw (transparent) = broom + straw

Clearly denotes straw used for making brooms; the compound is directly interpretable from its parts.

Etymology

The word broomstraw comes from broom, meaning a tool for sweeping or the plant used to make it, and straw, meaning 'dried stalks'. So it refers to the dried stalks people gather to make brooms or brushes.