panicum

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From translingual Panicum (genus name), from New Latin panicum (“panicgrass”).

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.

any grass in the genus Panicum

Uncertain, probably either from pānis (“bread; loaf”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to graze; to protect; to shepherd”)) or pānus (“ear of millet; thread wound on a bobbin”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁- (“to twist; to weave”)) + -cum (suffix forming neuter nouns).

pānicum n (genitive pānicī); second declension

More information singular, plural ...

“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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