NOUN
- shrub with stiff flattened stems resembling leaves (cladophylls); used for making brooms
How To Use butcher's broom In A Sentence
- The plant in the roof tile vase is Ruscus aculeatus, or butcher's broom. Façonner - French Word-A-Day
- _ruscus aculeatus_ (butcher's broom) were the most conspicuous, this latter is a pretty ever-green shrub, and the berries were there as large as those of a common _solanum pseudo capsicum_, (Pliny's _amomum_, or winter cherry) and of a bright scarlet colour, issuing from the middle of the under surface of the leaves; I never saw any of these berries any where else. A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792
