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millet

DEFINITIONS OF: millet

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n any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine

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Echinochloa crusgalli, barn grass, barn millet, barnyard grass
a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing
Echinochloa frumentacea, Japanese barnyard millet, Japanese millet, billion-dollar grass, sanwa millet
coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States
Eleusine indica, goose grass, wire grass, yard grass, yardgrass
coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere
African millet, Eleusine coracana, coracan, corakan, finger millet, kurakkan, ragee, ragi
East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient
panic grass
any grass of the genus Panicum; grown for grain and fodder
sorghum
economically important Old World tropical cereal grass
Panicum capillare, old witch grass, old witchgrass, tumble grass, witch grass, witchgrass
North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land
Panicum virgatum, switch grass
grass of western America used for hay
Panicum miliaceum, broomcorn millet, hog millet
extensively cultivated in Europe and Asia for its grain and in United States sometimes for forage
Panicum Texanum, Texas millet, goose grass
annual weedy grass used for hay
Sorghum bicolor, great millet, kaffir, kaffir corn, kafir corn
important for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves
grain sorghum
any of several sorghums cultivated primarily for grain
sorgho, sorgo, sugar sorghum, sweet sorghum
any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup
Aleppo grass, Johnson grass, Sorghum halepense, evergreen millet, means grass
tall perennial grass that spreads by creeping rhizomes and is grown for fodder; naturalized in southern United States where it is a serious pest on cultivated land
Sorghum vulgare technicum, broomcorn
tall grasses grown for the elongated stiff-branched panicle used for brooms and brushes
Type of:
cereal, cereal grass
grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet

n small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica

Type of:
cereal, food grain, grain
foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
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