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[], (Noun)
Definitions:
- Any of numerous grasses of the genus Panicum, which includes European millet, P. miliaceum, and several other important cereals and fodder grasses; panic grass; (in form Panicum) the genus itself.
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mid 18th century; earliest use found in Philip Miller (1691–1771), horticulturist and writer. From classical Latin pānicum panic, adopted by Linnaeus (Species Plantarum I. 55) and earlier botanists as the name of a genus
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