cheatgrassとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From cheat +‎ grass (reputedly because farmers felt cheated when wheat yields were lower because of cheatgrass invading their fields).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃiːtɡɹɑːs/

名詞

cheatgrass (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 cheatgrasses)

1. Bromus tectorum, drooping brome, native to Europe, thought to create an ecology prone to annual fires in many US areas.

引用

• 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 […]