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pennisetum's Usage Examples:

Pennisetum - P. longistylum is one of the most elegant of grasses, 1 to 1 1/2 feet high; the flower-spikes, borne on slender stems, are from 4 to 6 inches long, of singular twisted form, and enveloped in a purplish feathery down.

io), Pennisetum, 'c., the one or more circles of simple or feathery hairs represent abortive branches of the inflorescence; in Cenchrus (fig.

Pennisetum typhoideum is widely cultivated as a grain in tropical Africa.

Of species belonging to allied genera, Pennisetum typhoideum, bajree, sometimes also called Egyptian millet or pearl millet, is largely cultivated in tropical Asia, Nubia and Egypt.

pennisetum's Meaning':

a genus of Old World grasses