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Definition of 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 Pennisetum
Literary usage of 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. The Grasses of Iowa by Louis Hermann Pammel, Julius Buel Weems, Carleton Roy Ball, F. Lamson-Scribner, Harry Foster Bain (1904)
"pennisetum. pennisetum Pers. Syn. 1: 72. 1805. Endlicher. Gen. H1. 85. in part.
Bentham and Hooker Gen. P1. 3: 1105. Hackel Engler and Prantl. Nat. Pflanz. ..."
3. Lost Crops of Africa: Grains edited by F. R. Ruskin (1999)
"Two wild and weedy subspecies (pennisetum glaucum subspecies ... Among other
possibly useful wild species are pennisetum ..."
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