单词 | panicum |
释义 | panicum|ˈpænɪkəm| [L. name of a type of millet, adopted by Linnæus (Species Plantarum (1753) I. 55) and earlier botanists as the name of a genus.] A grass belonging to the large genus so called, including the European millet, Panicum miliaceum, and several other important cereals or fodder grasses; = panic n.1
1844J. D. Hooker Let. 10 Feb. in L. Huxley Life J. D. Hooker (1918) I. viii. 169 Fancy two new Panicums; I cannot make them agree with any others. 1870W. Robinson Wild Garden ii. 121 Elegant Panicum... America. Annual... Banks, slopes, fringes of shrubberies. 1932Discovery Jan. 24/2 A shade plant grows rankly and below is a mat of Panicum to the exclusion of everything else. 1966C. A. W. Guggisberg S.O.S. Rhino iv. 92 Panicum, which grows to a fair height, is eaten more especially when short, and the rhino have a tendency to keep it down. 1968F. W. Gould Grass Systematics 214 Bulb Panicum is an important forage grass of the southwestern mountain ranges. |

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