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PANIC GRASS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does panic grass mean?
• PANIC GRASS (noun)
The noun PANIC GRASS has 1 sense:
1. any grass of the genus Panicum; grown for grain and fodder
Familiarity information: PANIC GRASS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any grass of the genus Panicum; grown for grain and fodder
Classified under:
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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