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Webster 1913 Edition
Panicum
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Pan′i-cum
,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
- 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 .
panicum
panicum
See also: Panicum
English
Noun
panicum (plural panicums)
- 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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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
Synonyms
Descendants
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.