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Brome

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Any of various grasses of the genus Bromus, native to temperate regions and including several weeds and ornamentals and some species important for forage. Also called bromegrass.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Any grass of the genus Bromus.

n. bromine

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. See bromine.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Same as bromine.

n. Same as brome-grass.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions

Word Usage

"It's proving a bad year for brome, which is increasingly moving off headlands into the main parts of fields."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

grass

Cross Reference

red brome cheat grass cheatgrass

Variant

bromine

Hyponym

cheat downy brome awnless bromegrass chess drooping brome downy chess bromus japonicus japanese brome bromus tectorum bromus arvensis

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

bromegrass