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PENNISETUM GLAUCUM

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 I. (noun) 

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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 beerplay

Synonyms:

bulrush millet; cattail millet; pearl millet; Pennisetum Americanum; Pennisetum glaucum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

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