Broomball
a game similar to ice hockey, usually played on a rink, in which the players, often not wearing skates, use brooms instead of hockey sticks to shoot a volleyball into the opponent’s goal.
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- Broomrape
any of various parasitic plants, especially of the genus Orobanche, living on the roots of broom and other plants. Historical Examples The Khedive’s Country George Manville Fenn Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation James Buckman noun any orobanchaceous plant of the genus Orobanche: brownish small-flowered leafless parasites on the roots of other plants, esp on […]
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- Broomrape-family
the plant family Orobanchaceae, characterized by scaly, leafless herbaceous plants that are parasitic on the roots of other plants and have irregular flowers and many-seeded capsular fruit, and including beechdrops, broomrape, and squawroot.