downy chess

1. 1.

   annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean

   Synonymsdowny bromedowny bromegrassdowny cheatcheatgrassdrooping bromeBromus tectorum

   Broaderbrome

Questions about downy chess

What does downy chess mean?

downy chess means "annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean".

What is another word for downy chess?

Close synonyms include downy brome, downy bromegrass, downy cheat, cheatgrass, drooping brome. 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 downy chess a common word?

downy chess 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.