word of the day: brome

The word of the day is brome:

any of numerous grasses of the genus Bromus, having flat blades and open clusters of flower spikelets.

< Neo-Latin Brom (us) genus name (< Greek brómos oats) (dictionary.com)

"Some two hundred cows, clustered densely as plush toys in an acrcade game, stood shoulder-deep in orchard grass, brome, purple flowering alfalfa, and lupine."

 - Dana Goodyear, "Elite meat: a food entrepreneur offers a delicious - but pricey - solution for guilty pleasures", 3 November 2014 The New Yorker