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Brome
(gcide) | Brome \Brome\, n. [F.] (Chem.)
See Bromine.
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brome
(wn) | brome
n 1: any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus
Bromus; native to temperate regions [syn: brome,
bromegrass] |
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cerebromeningitis
(encz) | cerebromeningitis, n: |
downy brome
(encz) | downy brome, n: |
downy bromegrass
(encz) | downy bromegrass, n: |
drooping brome
(encz) | drooping brome, n: |
field brome
(encz) | field brome, n: |
ombrometer
(encz) | ombrometer,dešťoměr n: Zdeněk Brožombrometer,ombrometr n: Zdeněk Brožombrometer,srážkoměr n: Stanislav Horáček |
ombrometr
(czen) | ombrometr,ombrometern: Zdeněk Brož |
Brome grass
(gcide) | Brome grass \Brome" grass`\ [L. bromos a kind of oats, Gr. ?.]
(Bot.)
A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the
chess or cheat.
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Bromelia Pinguin
(gcide) | Penguin \Pen"guin\ (p[e^]n"gw[i^]n), n. [Perh. orig. the name of
another bird, and fr. W. pen head + gwyn white; or perh. from
a native South American name.]
1. (Zool.) Any bird of the order Impennes, or Ptilopteri.
They are covered with short, thick feathers, almost
scalelike on the wings, which are without true quills.
They are unable to fly, but use their wings to aid in
diving, in which they are very expert. See King penguin,
under Jackass.
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Note: Penguins are found in the south temperate and antarctic
regions. The king penguins (Aptenodytes Patachonica,
and Aptenodytes longirostris) are the largest; the
jackass penguins (Spheniscus) and the rock hoppers
(Catarractes) congregate in large numbers at their
breeding grounds.
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2. (Bot.) The egg-shaped fleshy fruit of a West Indian plant
(Bromelia Pinguin) of the Pineapple family; also, the
plant itself, which has rigid, pointed, and spiny-toothed
leaves, and is used for hedges. [Written also pinguin.]
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Arctic penguin (Zool.), the great auk. See Auk.
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Bromelia sylvestris
(gcide) | Ixtle \Ix"tle\ Ixtil \Ix"til\, n.
The fine, soft fiber of the bromeliaceous plant {Bromelia
sylvestris}. Iyar |
Bromeliaceous
(gcide) | Bromeliaceous \Bro*me`li*a"ceous\, 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.
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Ombrometer
(gcide) | Ombrometer \Om*brom"e*ter\, n. [Gr. ? rain + -meter: cf. F.
ombrom['e]tre.] (Meteorol.)
An instrument for measuring the rain that falls; a rain
gauge.
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awnless bromegrass
(wn) | awnless bromegrass
n 1: drought-resistant perennial with awns lacking or very short
and long creeping rhizomes; Europe and temperate Asia [syn:
awnless bromegrass, Bromus inermis] |
brome
(wn) | brome
n 1: any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus
Bromus; native to temperate regions [syn: brome,
bromegrass] |
bromegrass
(wn) | bromegrass
n 1: any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus
Bromus; native to temperate regions [syn: brome,
bromegrass] |
bromelia
(wn) | Bromelia
n 1: the type genus of the family Bromeliaceae which includes
tropical American plants with deeply cleft calyx |
bromeliaceae
(wn) | Bromeliaceae
n 1: a family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales
including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance
[syn: Bromeliaceae, family Bromeliaceae, {pineapple
family}] |
bromeosin
(wn) | bromeosin
n 1: 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: eosin, bromeosin] |
cerebromeningitis
(wn) | cerebromeningitis
n 1: inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their
meninges [syn: meningoencephalitis, cerebromeningitis,
encephalomeningitis] |
downy brome
(wn) | downy brome
n 1: annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of
the Mediterranean [syn: downy brome, downy bromegrass,
downy cheat, downy chess, cheatgrass, {drooping
brome}, Bromus tectorum] |
downy bromegrass
(wn) | downy bromegrass
n 1: annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of
the Mediterranean [syn: downy brome, downy bromegrass,
downy cheat, downy chess, cheatgrass, {drooping
brome}, Bromus tectorum] |
drooping brome
(wn) | drooping brome
n 1: annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of
the Mediterranean [syn: downy brome, downy bromegrass,
downy cheat, downy chess, cheatgrass, {drooping
brome}, Bromus tectorum] |
family bromeliaceae
(wn) | family Bromeliaceae
n 1: a family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales
including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance
[syn: Bromeliaceae, family Bromeliaceae, {pineapple
family}] |
field brome
(wn) | field brome
n 1: annual grass of Europe and temperate Asia [syn: {field
brome}, Bromus arvensis] |
japanese brome
(wn) | Japanese brome
n 1: grass of Mediterranean and temperate Asia [syn: {Japanese
brome}, Japanese chess, Bromus japonicus] |
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