BROME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brome mean? 

• BROME (noun)
  The noun BROME has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: BROME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

brome; bromegrass

Hypernyms ("brome" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brome"):

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

Bromus secalinus; cheat; chess (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)

Holonyms ("brome" is a member of...):

Bromus; genus Bromus (a genus of grasses of the family Gramineae)