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ITALIAN MILLET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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:
foxtail millet; Hungarian grass; Italian millet; Setaria italica
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Italian millet" is a kind of...):
foxtail; foxtail grass (grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Italian millet"):
Setaria italica rubrofructa; Siberian millet (millet having orange to reddish grains in long bristly spikes)
German millet; golden wonder millet; Setaria italica stramineofructa (millet having yellow grains in large drooping spikes)
Holonyms ("Italian millet" is a member of...):
genus Setaria; Setaria (annual or perennial grasses of warm regions: bristlegrasses)
