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Definition of Downy chess
1. Noun. Annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean.
Generic synonyms: Brome, Bromegrass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Downy Chess
Literary usage of Downy chess
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure, Life by Alphonso Wood (1875)
"4 B. mollis L. downy chess. Plant downy, with spreading hairs; spkl. o'*ate,
about 6-nwd., fls. closely imbricated ; awns straight, 8—1". ..."
2. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"2 B. mollis L. downy chess. Culm slender, some downy, 12 to 18' to 2f; Ivs.
fiat, hairy both sides, lance-linear, on sheaths clothed with ..."
3. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1869)
"2 B. molli« L. downy chess. Culm slender, some downy, 12 to 18' to 2f; Ivs.
flat, hairy both sides, lance-linear, on sheaths clothed with deflexed hairs ..."
4. The New American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure by Alphonso Wood (1889)
"... awns straight, 4" ; pan. simple ; plant slender, some hairy. (£) Fields. $ Eur.
4 B. in ni I ¡v L. downy chess. ..."
5. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1895)
"Snow and Saunders. Bromus, Brome Grass. B. secalinus, Chess. B. mollis, downy chess.
B. ciliatus. Tricuspis. ..."
6. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"1898. Bromus sterilis L. Barren brome Herbaceous annual Roadsides and waste ground.
Bromus tectorum L. downy chess Herbaceous annual Dry, fallow fields and ..."
7. Hantaviruses: Emerging Viral Diseases edited by J. S. Mackenzie (1999)
"... Gutierrezia sarothrae (snakeweed), and Bromus tectorum (downy chess grass);
and the three most common dominant overstory and understory species were ..."
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