Panicum

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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genus panicum

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"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."

Etymology

From translingual Panicum (genus name), from New Latin panicum (“panicgrass”).

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