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Definition of Genus Pennisetum
1. Noun. A genus of Old World grasses.
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Genus, Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Family Graminaceae, Family Gramineae, Family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, Grass Family, Poaceae
Member holonyms: Bulrush Millet, Cattail Millet, Pearl Millet, Pennisetum Americanum, Pennisetum Glaucum, Fountain Grass, Pennisetum Ruppelii, Pennisetum Setaceum, Feathertop, Feathertop Grass, Pennistum Villosum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Pennisetum
Literary usage of Genus Pennisetum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"genus Pennisetum PENNISETUM (Latin, penna, a feather, and setu, a bristle).
A genus of about forty species of (mostly) greenhouse grasses. ..."
2. Lost Crops of Africa: Grains edited by F. R. Ruskin (1999)
"Within the genus Pennisetum, apomictic types have been located in a number of
species. If their trait for self- replication can be transferred to pearl ..."
3. Molecular Markers in Plant Genome Analysis: Sponsored CRIS/ICAR Projects and by Andrew Kalinski (1995)
"CC: F200 AB: Apomixis, asexual reproduction through seed, is an obligate mode of
reproduction in several species from the genus Pennisetum. ..."
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