Translingual

Proper noun

Panicum n

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Poaceae – including millets, witchgrass, barnyard grass, and hundreds of other species.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, monocots, commelinids - clades; Poales - order; Poaceae - family; Panicoideae - subfamily; Paniceae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Panicum miliaceum - type species; Panicum dactylon, Panicum queenslandicum - selected other species; For the numerous other species see Panicum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia ; for species and synonyms (undifferentiated) see Panicum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies .

English

Noun

panicum ‎(plural panicums)

1. Any of the genus Panicum of tropical grasses.
   • 2008 January 18, Steve Bailey, “A Weekend Home That’s Straight Out of a Dream”, in New York Times:

     And his property might remind someone of the dunes of the East End of Long Island: nine acres of artfully placed native grasses like panicum and schizachyrium and meadow plants like rudbeckia and asters.

Translations

See also

• panicum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• panicum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• panicum at USDA Plants database

Latin

Etymology

From pānus ‎(“ear of millet”).

Noun

panicum

1. Italian millet, foxtail millet (Setaria italica), panicgrass

Synonyms

• pānīcium

Descendants

• French: panic
• Italian: panico
• Romanian: părâng, părinc

References

• panicum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• panicum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “panicum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.