noun. A genus of grasses, of the tribe Paniceæ.

noun. annual or perennial grasses of warm regions: bristlegrasses

"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."

liliopsid genus  monocot genus  

Setaria