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PENNISETUM GLAUCUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage; sometimes used in making beer
Synonyms:
bulrush millet; cattail millet; pearl millet; Pennisetum Americanum; Pennisetum glaucum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Pennisetum glaucum" is a kind of...):
cereal; cereal grass (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)
Holonyms ("Pennisetum glaucum" is a member of...):
genus Pennisetum; Pennisetum (a genus of Old World grasses)