bromus tectorum

What does bromus tectorum mean?

bromus tectorum means "annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean".

What is another word for bromus tectorum?

Close synonyms include downy brome, downy bromegrass, downy cheat, downy chess, cheatgrass. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bromus tectorum a common word?

bromus tectorum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bromus tectorum come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.