Setaria italica

Definitions of Setaria italica
  1. noun
    coarse drought-resistant annual grass grown for grain, hay, and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and hay in United States
    synonyms: Hungarian grass, Italian millet, foxtail millet
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    types:
    Setaria italica rubrofructa, Siberian millet
    millet having orange to reddish grains in long bristly spikes
    German millet, Setaria italica stramineofructa, golden wonder millet
    millet having yellow grains in large drooping spikes
    type of:
    foxtail, foxtail grass
    grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes
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