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Certain: The standard etymology in the RAE dictionary and in Corriente; no serious doubt.Plants & animals · Common

retama

broom (shrub with yellow flowers and long branches)arbusto de flores amarillas y ramas largas

Comes from Arabic

رَتَمَة

ratama

“a broom bush”«una retama»

Arabic today says

رَتَم

ratam

And it still does

Root

ر ت م

r-t-m

The article

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The story

Ratama is "a broom bush". The same Arabic word gave the genus its scientific name, Retama.Ratama es «una mata de retama». La misma palabra árabe dio el nombre científico del género, Retama.

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