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BROME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions
Synonyms:
brome; bromegrass
Classified under:
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)
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