cheatgrass
See also: cheat grass
English
Bromus tectorum
Etymology
From cheat + grass (reputedly because farmers felt cheated when wheat yields were lower because of cheatgrass invading their fields).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtʃiːtɡɹɑːs/
Noun
cheatgrass (countable and uncountable, plural cheatgrasses)
- Bromus tectorum, drooping brome, native to Europe, thought to create an ecology prone to annual fires in many US areas.
Quotations
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 98:
- It took maybe nine or ten years more of westward drift, over the rolling prairie, through the cheatgrass, the sage grouse exploding skyward […]
Translations
Bromus tectorum
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