Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various grasses of the genus Bromus, having loose usually drooping panicles and including several weeds and ornamentals and some species important for forage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
brome-grass . - noun Same as
bromine .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) See
bromine .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any grass of the genus
Bromus . - noun chemistry, obsolete
bromine
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It's proving a bad year for brome, which is increasingly moving off headlands into the main parts of fields.
FWi - All News 2009
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It's proving a bad year for brome, which is increasingly moving off headlands into the main parts of fields.
FWi - All News 2009
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It's proving a bad year for brome, which is increasingly moving off headlands into the main parts of fields.
FWi - All News 2009
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It's proving a bad year for brome, which is increasingly moving off headlands into the main parts of fields.
FWi - All News 2008
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More difficult grassweeds such as brome are now widespread and blackgrass is relatively common, albeit in small patches.
FWi - All News 2009
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More difficult grassweeds such as brome are now widespread and blackgrass is relatively common, albeit in small patches.
FWi - All News 2009
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More difficult grassweeds such as brome are now widespread and blackgrass is relatively common, albeit in small patches.
FWi - All News 2009
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More difficult grassweeds such as brome are now widespread and blackgrass is relatively common, albeit in small patches.
FWi - All News 2009
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Curious sampler: Take a breath and get grip, brome slice.
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So I'll play safe and stick to a simple list: brown bent, totter, sheep's fescue, crested dog's tail, cock's foot, sweet vernal, soft brome – poetic names of common hay meadow grasses that reflect a bygone era of agriculture.
Make hay meadow photos while the sun shines | Phil Gates 2011
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