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Definition of Drooping brome
1. Noun. Annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean.
Generic synonyms: Brome, Bromegrass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drooping Brome
Literary usage of Drooping brome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British and Garden Botany: Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering by Leo Hartley Grindon (1864)
"Near Bristol certain hayfields are largely composed of it. Fl. June. EB vii. 471.
64. ROUGH drooping brome-GRASS—Bro'mus as'per. ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1897)
"... among and garnished with purple-tipped fox-tail and the drooping brome-grass,
and the waters alongside carolling to them as though they were children at ..."
3. Highways and Byways in East Anglia by William Alfred Dutt (1901)
"For such there are the birds' songs, the crackling of bursting gorse- pods, the
drooping brome grasses, and the June roses; and for my own part I am this ..."
4. The Norfolk Broads by William Alfred Dutt (1906)
"This leafy lane, which is in places so narrow that the path is almost hidden by
ferny parsley leaves and drooping brome grasses, skirts the borders of Mr. ..."
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