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PANIC GRASS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any grass of the genus Panicum; grown for grain and fodder

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("panic grass" is a kind of...):

millet (any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "panic grass"):

old witch grass; old witchgrass; Panicum capillare; tumble grass; witch grass; witchgrass (North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land)

Panicum virgatum; switch grass (grass of western America used for hay)

broomcorn millet; hog millet; Panicum miliaceum (extensively cultivated in Europe and Asia for its grain and in United States sometimes for forage)

goose grass; Panicum Texanum; Texas millet (annual weedy grass used for hay)

Holonyms ("panic grass" is a member of...):

genus Panicum; Panicum (panic grass)

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