brome

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
11
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/bɹəʊm/

Definition of brome

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Any grass of the genus Bromus.
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noun

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

name

  1. A surname.
  2. A village surrounded by the town of Brome Lake, Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
  3. A village in Brome and Oakley parish, Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM1376).
  4. A municipality and Samtgemeinde in Gifhorn district, north of Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Etymology

From the genus name, New Latin Bromus, from Ancient Greek βρόμος (brómos, “oat, wild oat”).

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