panicum

See also: Panicum

English

Etymology

New Latin, from the genus name.

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.

Translations

any grass in the genus Panicum

Portuguese: painço (pt) m

See also

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

Latin

Etymology

From pānus (“ear of millet”).

Noun

panicum

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
panicum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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