Sprig of Broom for Plantagenet-how to understand?

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How to translate Sprig Of Broom to German ? sprig of broom as  the very translation of Plantagenet - 

makes no precise sense when translated to German. How can this term be interpreted in simple words? Broom has so many possible translations ( sweeping tool, fork of branches, etc. and so has sprig... or or may also be related to heraldry..? )

Inselstricken · Accepted Answer

Are you deliberately being silly?  
sprig - a twig, a small piece of a plant. in German, der Zweig [ as you can see, cognate with twig]
broom  is the name of a plant, with yellow flowers in spring. In German it is  der Ginster [French - le genet]
Ginsterzweig

RAY G · Answer

In this context, it's the plant called "broom": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broom_%28shrub%29 (in German, "Besenginster" http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Besenginster

A "sprig" is a little shoot or bunch of a plant - a twig with a few leaves on it - "Zweiglein" maybe.

Edit: The German Wikipedia article on the Plantagenets actually has a translation: "Ginsterzweig".

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Dieser geht auf die Angewohnheit des Grafen zurÃ¼ck, einen Ginsterzweig (lat.: planta genista; frz.: plante genÃªt) als Helmzier zu tragen.
- Haus Plantagenet http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haus_Plantagenet
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Sprig of Broom for Plantagenet-how to understand?

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