Vocabulary : Brook mint to Broom corn
Brook mint : See Water mint.
Brooked : of Brook
Brooking : of Brook
Brookite : A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
Brooklet : A small brook.
Brooklime : A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana.
Brookside : The bank of a brook.
Brookweed : A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.
Broom : A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers. ;; An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom. ;; See Bream.
Broom corn : A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.
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