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BROMEGRASS

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

brome; bromegrass

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bromegrass" 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 "bromegrass"):

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 ("bromegrass" is a member of...):

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

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