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panic grass

DEFINITIONS OF: panic grass

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n any grass of the genus Panicum; grown for grain and fodder

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Panicum capillare, old witch grass, old witchgrass, tumble grass, witch grass, witchgrass
North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land
Panicum virgatum, switch grass
grass of western America used for hay
Panicum miliaceum, broomcorn millet, hog millet
extensively cultivated in Europe and Asia for its grain and in United States sometimes for forage
Panicum Texanum, Texas millet, goose grass
annual weedy grass used for hay
Type of:
millet
any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
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