field brome

8.1

A common grass that grows in farm fields and waste areas

noun
/fiːld broʊm/

: bromus de campo

The field brome grows well in disturbed soil.

Examples

Many farmers struggle with field brome in their crops.
We found patches of field brome growing along the rural pathways.
Many botanists study field brome due to its adaptability to different soils.
The farmer noticed that field brome was spreading quickly across his land.
The farmer noticed that field brome was spreading quickly across his land.
We found patches of field brome growing along the rural pathways.
Many botanists study field brome due to its adaptability to different soils.

Synonyms

Bromus arvensis

vsfield brome

Specialized

9.9

A grass that lives for one year and grows like a weed in farm fields

is the common name for the same annual grass

Surface Forms

field brome singular

field bromes plural

Morphology

field + brome

The compound directly combines 'field' (plot of land) with 'brome' (a type of grass), so the meaning 'a grass that occurs in fields' is transparently derivable from the parts. This noun+noun compounding is a common, predictable English pattern (and parallels in other languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would understand it.

Etymology

Field brome comes from a simple image: brome was an old word for a kind of grass, and field shows where it grows ('in fields'). So the name refers to a grass that grows in open farmland and waste places.