millet : Idioms & Phrases

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african millet

  • noun East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient
    African millet; corakan; Eleusine coracana; ragee; ragi; kurakkan; coracan.
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barn millet

  • noun a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing
    barnyard grass; Echinochloa crusgalli; barn grass.
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broomcorn millet

  • noun extensively cultivated in Europe and Asia for its grain and in United States sometimes for forage
    Panicum miliaceum; broomcorn millet.
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bulrush millet

  • noun tall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage; sometimes used in making beer
    cattail millet; Pennisetum Americanum; bulrush millet; Pennisetum glaucum.
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cattail millet

  • noun tall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage; sometimes used in making beer
    cattail millet; Pennisetum Americanum; bulrush millet; Pennisetum glaucum.
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evergreen millet

  • noun 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
    Aleppo grass; Sorghum halepense; means grass; Johnson grass.
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finger millet

  • noun East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient
    African millet; corakan; Eleusine coracana; ragee; ragi; kurakkan; coracan.
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foxtail millet

  • 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
    foxtail millet; Setaria italica; Hungarian grass.
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German millet

  • noun millet having yellow grains in large drooping spikes
    German millet; Setaria italica stramineofructa.
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  • (Bot.), a kind of millet (Setaria Italica, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food.
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golden wonder millet

  • noun millet having yellow grains in large drooping spikes
    German millet; Setaria italica stramineofructa.
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Gray mill or millet

  • (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus Lithospermum; gromwell.
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great millet

  • noun important for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves
    Sorghum bicolor; kaffir; kaffir corn; kafir corn.
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hog millet

  • noun extensively cultivated in Europe and Asia for its grain and in United States sometimes for forage
    Panicum miliaceum; broomcorn millet.
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Indian millet

  • noun sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa
    Guinea corn; Egyptian corn; durra; doura; dourah.
  • noun valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico
    Oryzopsis hymenoides; silk grass; silkgrass; mountain rice.
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  • (Bot.), a tall annual grass (Sorghum vulgare), having many varieties, among which are broom corn, Guinea corn, durra, and the Chinese sugar cane. It is called also Guinea corn. See Durra.
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italian millet

  • 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
    foxtail millet; Setaria italica; Hungarian grass.
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japanese barnyard millet

  • noun coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States
    billion-dollar grass; Japanese barnyard millet; Echinochloa frumentacea; Japanese millet.
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japanese millet

  • noun coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States
    billion-dollar grass; Japanese barnyard millet; Echinochloa frumentacea; Japanese millet.
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jean francois millet

  • noun French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)
    Millet.
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Pearl millet

  • noun tall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage; sometimes used in making beer
    cattail millet; Pennisetum Americanum; bulrush millet; Pennisetum glaucum.
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  • Egyptian millet (Penicillaria spicata).
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sanwa millet

  • noun coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States
    billion-dollar grass; Japanese barnyard millet; Echinochloa frumentacea; Japanese millet.
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siberian millet

  • noun millet having orange to reddish grains in long bristly spikes
    Setaria italica rubrofructa.
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texas millet

  • noun annual weedy grass used for hay
    goose grass; Panicum Texanum.
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