different between cheatgrass vs brome

English

Etymology

From cheat +? grass (reputedly because farmers felt cheated when wheat yields were lower because of cheatgrass invading their fields).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?i?t????s/

Noun

cheatgrass (countable and uncountable, plural cheatgrasses)

1. Bromus tectorum, drooping brome, native to Europe, thought to create an ecology prone to annual fires in many US areas.

Quotations

• 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 98:

  It took maybe nine or ten years more of westward drift, over the rolling prairie, through the cheatgrass, the sage grouse exploding skyward […]

Translations

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Ancient Greek ?????? (brómos) ("oat, wild oat")

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???m/

Noun

brome (countable and uncountable, plural bromes)

1. Any grass of the genus Bromus.
2. (chemistry, obsolete) bromine

Synonyms

• bromegrass

Translations

See also

• cheat grass, cheatgrass

Anagrams

• B-more, omber, ombre

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?om/

Noun

brome m (uncountable)

1. bromine
2. brome (plant)

Derived terms

• bromate
• bromique
• bromure

Descendants

• Lingala: bomo

Further reading

• “brome” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• ombre, ombré

Latin

Noun

brome

1. vocative singular of bromos