panicle

  • 91Pan|ic — pan|ic1 «PAN ihk», noun, adjective, verb, icked, ick|ing. –n. 1. a fear affecting an individual or spreading through a whole group of persons or animals so that they lose control of themselves; unreasoning fear: »When the theater caught fire… …

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  • 92pan|ic — pan|ic1 «PAN ihk», noun, adjective, verb, icked, ick|ing. –n. 1. a fear affecting an individual or spreading through a whole group of persons or animals so that they lose control of themselves; unreasoning fear: »When the theater caught fire… …

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  • 93Adam's needle — Yucca Yuc ca, n. [NL., from Yuca, its name in St. Domingo.] (Bot.) A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of …

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  • 94Agrostis scabra — Flyaway grass Flyaway grass (Bot.) The hair grass ({Agrostis scabra}). So called from its light panicle, which is blown to great distances by the wind. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …

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  • 95Ardea candidissima — Plume Plume, n. [F., fr. L. pluma. Cf. {Fly}, v.] [1913 Webster] 1. A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather. [1913 Webster] Wings . . . of many a colored plume. Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo[ o]l.) An… …

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  • 96Atherosperma moschata — Plume Plume, n. [F., fr. L. pluma. Cf. {Fly}, v.] [1913 Webster] 1. A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather. [1913 Webster] Wings . . . of many a colored plume. Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo[ o]l.) An… …

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  • 97bear grass — Yucca Yuc ca, n. [NL., from Yuca, its name in St. Domingo.] (Bot.) A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of …

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  • 98Blastocerus campestris — Pampas Pam pas, n. pl. [Sp., fr. Peruv. pampa a field, plain.] Vast grass covered plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains east of the Andes… …

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  • 99broom corn — broomcorn room corn, broom corn room corn (Bot.) A tall variety of grass ({Sorghum vulgare} technicum), having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long stiff branches, of …

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  • 100broomcorn — room corn, broom corn room corn (Bot.) A tall variety of grass ({Sorghum vulgare} technicum), having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long stiff branches, of which… …

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