PENNISETUM SETACEUM

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Meaning:

Tall perennial ornamental grass with long nodding flower plumes of tropical Africa and Asia

Synonyms:

fountain grass; Pennisetum ruppelii; Pennisetum setaceum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Pennisetum setaceum" is a kind of...):

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Holonyms ("Pennisetum setaceum" is a member of...):

genus Pennisetum; Pennisetum (a genus of Old World grasses)

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