brome
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- noun
- /broʊm/
- Specialized
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bromo
- There are long stretches where it's nothing but brome, with blotches and clumps of cedars in the gullies, looking black-green against the dead spring grass.
- brome grass
Examples
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"Walking through the sagebrush, I spotted several native species of wheatgrass and brome within half a mile," he says.
Academic text (1994) -
How different the poem would be if Kolosso had broken the lines less often, like this: High on timothy and brome grass, you dive, pull up, circle, half twist...
Academic text (2010) -
At midday, he parks on the last high ridge and climbs out, gazing down at a surviving patch of brome and cedar.
Fiction book (2002) -
Property lines or fences were not considered field boundaries, while vegetation changes were considered (e.g., a cool season CRP field composed of tall dense brome adjacent to the warm season grass field would be considered a boundary).
Academic text (2017) -
The fields were lush with tall, green brome grass swaying gently in the breeze.
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Farmers often plant brome in meadows to provide good forage for livestock.
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Many types of wildlife thrive in areas covered with brome, especially in temperate regions.
Synonyms
A grass that farmers grow to feed animals
A group of grass plants, some grown to feed animals
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word brome comes from the Latin plant name Bromus, which itself comes from an old Greek word meaning 'oats'. So brome is a kind of grass much like oats and is often used as food for farm animals.