brachypodium

From the genus name.

brachypodium (plural brachypodiums)

1. Any grass of the genus Brachypodium.
   • 1957, The Bulletin of the Hardy Plant Society, volumes 1-5, page 26:

     Then there are the brachypodiums found abundantly in semi-shaded positions, whose awned spikelets are suspended from the gracefully sagging, thin branchings of the panicles, and the elegant glycerias found in damp places.

   • 2016 March 8, “CG Methylation Covaries with Differential Gene Expression between Leaf and Floral Bud Tissues of Brachypodium distachyon”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:

     These results suggest that CG methylation acts in some unknown way to limit methylation in the other contexts, at least in brachypodium.