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Webster 1913 Edition


Panicum


Pan′i-cum

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Noun.
[L., panic grass.]
(Bot.)
A genus of grasses, including several hundred species, some of which are valuable; panic grass.

Definition 2024


Panicum

Panicum

See also: panicum

Translingual

Proper noun

Panicum n

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

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panicum

panicum

See also: Panicum

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.

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Latin

Etymology

From pānus (ear of millet).

Noun

panicum

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

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