Bot. [ad. Bromus, Bot. name of the genus, in Pliny bromos, a. Gr. βρόμος (also βρῶμος) oats.] A book-name for a genus of oat-like grasses (Bromus). Also Brome-grass.
1759–91. B. Stillingfleet, Misc. Tracts, 371. To … approach as near as possible to the Latin names in sound…. I have called aira hair-grass, the bromus brome-grass, &c. Ibid., 378. Corn-Brome … Bromus Arvensis.
1794. Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xiii. 140. The Bromes are very nearly allied to the Fescues.
1881. Jefferies, Wood Magic, I. vi. 136. The long brome-grass tickled his face while he was pulling.
