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Definition of Brome
1. Noun. Any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions.
Generic synonyms: Grass
Group relationships: Bromus, Genus Bromus
Specialized synonyms: Awnless Bromegrass, Bromus Inermis, Bromus Secalinus, Cheat, Chess, Bromus Tectorum, Cheatgrass, Downy Brome, Downy Bromegrass, Downy Cheat, Downy Chess, Drooping Brome, Bromus Arvensis, Field Brome, Bromus Japonicus, Japanese Brome, Japanese Chess
Definition of Brome
1. n. See Bromine.
Definition of Brome
1. Noun. Any grass of the genus ''Bromus''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brome
1. a tall grass [n -S]
Medical Definition of Brome
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Brome
Literary usage of Brome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (Fargo) (1899)
"AUSTRIAN brome GRASS. Austrain brome Grass, otherwise known as Hungarian brome
Grass and Awnless brome Grass, the botanical name for which is Bromus inermis ..."
2. Collections and Notes, 1867-1876 by William Carew Hazlitt (1876)
"The English Moor, or The Mock-Marriage. The Love-Sick Count, or The Ambitious
Politique. Covent Garden Weeded. The Queen and Concubine. By Richard brome. ..."
3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"brome was a spirited song-writer, and his bacchanalian lyrics have always ...
brome was a contributor to, and editor of, a variorum translation of Horace, ..."
4. American Book Prices Current (1901)
"London, for Henry brome, 1657. Small 410, half morocco, red edges. ... The Collection
edited by Alexander brome. McKee sale, Anderson's, April 29, 1901. ..."
5. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"brome. I did it in the case of his royal highness against Mr. Pilkington. ...
LCJ Was brome among them ? Keeling. There was about thirty or forty. Keeling. ..."
6. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1910)
"Seeded to brome-grass. FIELD E, 26§ ACRES. 1910. brome-grays meadow. ...
brome-grass meadow. In some of the drier parts of the Great Plains area it will ..."
7. A Dictionary of Chemistry by Andrew Ure (1828)
"It happens occasionally that the whole brome is thus converted into ...
This transformation is probably occasioned by the action of brome on a small ..."
8. The Book of Grasses: An Illustrated Guide to the Common Grasses, and the by Mary Francis Baker (1912)
"Downy brome-grass, the earliest species, is common along railway embankments and
by dry roadsides and is resembled by closely related species which have a ..."
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