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brome (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
also bromegrass brome′·grass′

Etymology: < ModL < L bromos < Gr, oats, rustling < bremein, to rustle < IE base *bherem-, to rustle, buzz

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