panicum
/ˈpanɪkəm/Botany
noun
Any of numerous grasses of the genus Panicum, which includes European millet, P. miliaceum, and several other important cereals and fodder grasses; panic grass; (in form Panicum) the genus itself.
Origin
Mid 18th century; earliest use found in Philip Miller (1691–1771), horticulturist and writer. From classical Latin pānicum panic, adopted by Linnaeus (Species Plantarum I. 55) and earlier botanists as the name of a genus.
- panaesthesia
- pan-African
- pan-Africander
- pan-Africanism
- pan-Africanist
- Pan-Africanist Congress
- Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania
- Panaghia
- Panagia
- panagraph
- panagraphic
- panagraphy
- Panaji
- panama
- Panama Canal
- Panama City
- Panama disease
- Panama fever
- Salop
- salopettes
- Salopian
- salotto
- salp
- salpicon
- salpiglossis