paniculate (panikulat)

[= F. paniculé = Pg. paniculado = It. pan i cola to, spikelets; the lower flower of the spikelet manifest but imperfect, either staminate or neutral, the upper flower and hard; and the lowest the commonly four glumes minute and awnle , without bristles or appendages beneath. It includes about 160 species (by some estimated at more than 300), widely scattered through colder regions, some of them almost cosmopolitan. They are annual or perennial, prostrate or erect, with flowers sometimes in few unbranched spikes, or commonly in an ample and very spreading panicle. A general name for plants of the genus is panic-gra . It contains, besides wild and weed gra es, a considerable number of important grain and forage-plants. For the latter, see millet, guinea -gra , concho-gra , shamalo- gra , umbrella - gra , bamboo, 1 (b). For others le important, see barn - gra , cockspur - gra , bur - gra , 2, ginger -gra , crab-gra , 1, finger - gra , old- witch gra . panidiomorphic (pan-idi-o-môr'fik), a. [ panidrosis (pan-i-drō'sis), n. [NL.,