pennisetum
English Thesaurus
1. a genus of Old World grasses (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | liliopsid genus, monocot genus, |
| definition | : | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | bulrush millet, cattail millet, pearl millet, pennisetum americanum, pennisetum glaucum, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | fountain grass, pennisetum ruppelii, pennisetum setaceum, |
| definition | : | tall perennial ornamental grass with long nodding flower plumes of tropical Africa and Asia (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | feathertop, feathertop grass, pennistum villosum, |
| definition | : | northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | family graminaceae, family gramineae, family poaceae, graminaceae, gramineae, grass family, poaceae, |
| definition | : | the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane (noun.plant) |
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