setaria
IPA: sɛtˈɑriʌ
Root Word: Setaria
noun
- a widespread genus of plants in the grass family.
- a genus of parasitic roundworms that infect domesticated mammals such as pigs, camels, cattle and horses.
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Examples of "setaria" in Sentences
- [...] mach ich jetzt aus persönlichen Gründen mal keinen Scherz drüber,. .der Kann sich jedenfalls folgenden Rucksack [...] setaria Says:
- To infuse color into a neutral-shade area and welcome in the fall or holiday season, try wreaths made of dried green and copper colored magnolia leaves adorned with dried autumn oak leaves, setaria, magnolia pods, yarrow and fall gourds.
- The pine-apple forms the ornament of the fields near the Havannah, where it is planted in parallel rows; on the sides of the Duida it embellishes the turf of the savannahs, lifting its yellow fruit, crowned with a tuft of silvery leaves, above the setaria, the paspalum, and a few cyperaceae.
- It may also be inferred, from one variety of wheat being the so-called Egyptian, and from what is known of the native country of the panicum and setaria, as well as from the nature of the weeds which then grew mingled with the crops, that the lake-inhabitants either still kept up commercial intercourse with some southern people or had originally proceeded as colonists from the South.
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