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panicum en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin pānicumder. Translingual Panicumbor. English panicum From translingual Panicum (genus name), from New Latin panicum (“panicgrass”).

Meanings

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

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Relateds

panicum at USDA Plants database

Translations (2)

pt painço (any grass in the genus Panicum) · pl proso (any grass in the genus Panicum)