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

pānicum n (genitive pānicī); second declension

Italian millet, foxtail millet (Setaria italica), panicgrass

Synonyms

pānicium

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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