brome

(brōm)

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. Also called bromegrass.

[New Latin Bromus, genus name, from Greek bromos, oats.]

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Noun

brome - any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions

bromegrass

grass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay

Bromus, genus Bromus - a genus of grasses of the family Gramineae

awnless bromegrass, Bromus inermis - drought-resistant perennial with awns lacking or very short and long creeping rhizomes; Europe and temperate Asia

Bromus secalinus, chess, cheat - weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

Bromus tectorum, cheatgrass, downy brome, downy bromegrass, downy cheat, downy chess, drooping brome - annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean

Bromus arvensis, field brome - annual grass of Europe and temperate Asia

Bromus japonicus, Japanese brome, Japanese chess - grass of Mediterranean and temperate Asia

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In 2014, the species cover in the control plot for both soil types averaged 36% medusahead, 16% yellow starthistle, 13% slender oat (Avena barbata Pott ex Link), 12% annual ryegrass, 6% ripgut brome (Bromus diandrus Roth), 6% soft chess, 4% hare barley (Hordeum murinum L.

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Encompassing literature, legal history, and politics, Jessica Dyson's Staging Authority in Caroline England: Prerogative, Law and Order in Drama, 1625-1642 analyzes plays by Phillip Massinger, Richard Brome, Ben Jonson, James Shirley, and John Ford in the context of English legal debates about sovereign prerogative and legitimate legal authority in the two decades leading up to the Civil War.

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