Panicum

Origin

New Latin, from the genus name.

Full definition of panicum

Noun

1. Any of the genus Panicum of tropical grasses.
• 2008, January 18, Steve Bailey, A Weekend Home That’s Straight Out of a Dream, And his property might remind someone of the dunes of the East End of Long Island: nine acres of artfully placed native grasses like panicum and schizachyrium and meadow plants like rudbeckia and asters.