Italian millet

Italian millet
    n 1: coarse drought-resistant annual grass grown for grain, hay,
         and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and
         hay in United States [syn: {foxtail millet}, {Italian
         millet}, {Hungarian grass}, {Setaria italica}]
    

millet \mil"let\ (m[i^]l"l[e^]t), n. [F., dim. of mil, L.
   milium; akin to Gr. meli`nh, AS. mil.] (Bot.)
   The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an
   abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of
   Germany and Southern Europe are {Panicum miliaceum}, and
   {Setaria Italica}.

   Note:

   {Arabian millet} is {Sorghum Halepense}.

   {Egyptian millet} or

   {East Indian millet} is {Penicillaria spicata}.

   {Indian millet} is {Sorghum vulgare}. (See under {Indian}.)
      

   {Italian millet} is {Setaria Italica}, a coarse, rank-growing
      annual grass, valuable for fodder when cut young, and
      bearing nutritive seeds; -- called also {Hungarian grass}.
      

   {Texas millet} is {Panicum Texanum}.

   {Wild millet}, or

   {Millet grass}, is {Milium effusum}, a tall grass growing in
      woods.
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