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Cytisus

noun

Large genus of stiff or spiny evergreen or deciduous Old World shrubs: broom. Synonym: genus Cytisus.

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... bed of wallflowers breathed out a delicate sweetness. A mass of flowers of all species and color flung their fragrance to the breeze, while a cytisus covered with yellow clusters scattered its fine pollen abroad, a golden cloud, with an odor of honey that bore its balmy seed across space, similar to the sachet-powders ...

— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant

... is beautiful," writes Mrs. Humphry Ward, in "Eleanor," of this romantic spot; "for it is masked in the gloom of the overhanging trees; or hidden behind dropping veils of ivy; or lit up by straggling patches of broom and cytisus that thrust themselves through the gaps in the Roman brickwork and shine golden in the dark. At the foot of the wall, along its whole length, runs a low marble conduit that held the sweetest, liveliest water. Lilies of the valley grow beside it, breathing ...

— Italy, the Magic Land • Lilian Whiting

... runs after cytisus, the wolf pursues the goat, the crane follows the plough, but I am wild ...

— Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose • Andrew Lang

Words linked to "Cytisus" : common broom, Cytisus ramentaceus, white broom, subfamily Papilionoideae, Cytisus albus, green broom, genus Cytisus, Cytisus multiflorus, white Spanish broom, Cytisus scoparius, Scotch broom, Papilionoideae, rosid dicot genus