Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pennisetum_americanum

1 sense of pennisetum americanum

Sense 1
pearl millet, bulrush millet, cattail millet, Pennisetum glaucum, Pennisetum Americanum -- (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)
       => cereal, cereal grass -- (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)