Added 9 October 2026
panicle
noun
Latin root: pānicula Wiktionary
noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. More about panicle at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
Origin
Borrowed from Latin pānicula, diminutive of pānus (“ear of millet, literally 'thread wound on a bobbin'”), from Ancient Greek πῆνος (pênos, “web”), πηνίον (pēníon, “bobbin”). Doublet of panocha.
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