Brome Definition

brōm
noun
Any of a large genus (Bromus) of grasses of the temperate zone, having closed sheaths and spikelets with awns: a few are crop plants but many are weeds.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Brome

  • New Latin Bromus genus name from Greek bromos oats

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Brome Sentence Examples

  • Hawkins, his relative and executor, in 1721; his prose ' The fact, however, that in 1712 - only a year after Ken's death - his publisher, Brome, published the hymn with the opening words "All praise," has been deemed by such a high authority as the 1st earl of Selborne sufficient evidence that the alteration had Ken's authority.

  • Austrian brome grass (Bromus inermis) and western rye grass (Agropyrum tenerum) are both extensively grown for hay in the North-West Provinces.

  • A footnote (1743) explained away the allusion by making it apply to Richard Brome, the disciple of Ben Jonson.

  • Alternatively, pick Ethos if you need to tackle mixed brome and black-grass populations, and want to get in early.

  • In grassland, cutting should be done early enough to prevent barren brome seeding.

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