awnless bromegrass | (n) drought-resistant perennial with awns lacking or very short and long creeping rhizomes; Europe and temperate Asia, Syn. Bromus inermis |
brome | (n) any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions, Syn. bromegrass |
bromelia | (n) the type genus of the family Bromeliaceae which includes tropical American plants with deeply cleft calyx |
bromeliaceae | (n) a family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance, Syn. family Bromeliaceae, pineapple family |
downy brome | (n) annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean, Syn. cheatgrass, downy cheat, drooping brome, downy chess, downy bromegrass, Bromus tectorum |
field brome | (n) annual grass of Europe and temperate Asia, Syn. Bromus arvensis |
japanese brome | (n) grass of Mediterranean and temperate Asia, Syn. Bromus japonicus, Japanese chess |
eosin | (n) a red fluorescent dye resulting from the action of bromine on fluorescein; used in cosmetics and as a biological stain for studying cell structures, Syn. bromeosin |
meningoencephalitis | (n) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges, Syn. encephalomeningitis, cerebromeningitis |
Brome | ‖n. [ F. ] (Chem.) See Bromine. [ 1913 Webster ] |
Brome grass | [ L. bromos a kind of oats, Gr. &unr_;. ] (Bot.) A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat. [ 1913 Webster ] |
Bromeliaceous | a. [ Named after Olaf Bromel, a Swedish botanist. ] (Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera Tillandsia and Billbergia are examples. The pineapple, though terrestrial, is also of this family. [ 1913 Webster ] |
Ombrometer | n. [ Gr. &unr_; rain + -meter: cf. F. ombrométre. ] (Meteorol.) An instrument for measuring the rain that falls; a rain gauge. [ 1913 Webster ] |