pennisetum americanum

What does pennisetum americanum mean?

pennisetum americanum means "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".

What is another word for pennisetum americanum?

Close synonyms include pearl millet, bulrush millet, cattail millet, Pennisetum glaucum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pennisetum americanum a common word?

pennisetum americanum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pennisetum americanum come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.