SANWA MILLET

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Meaning:

Coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States

Synonyms:

billion-dollar grass; Echinochloa frumentacea; Japanese barnyard millet; Japanese millet; sanwa millet

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sanwa millet" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("sanwa millet" is a member of...):

Echinochloa; genus Echinochloa (annual or perennial succulent grasses of warm regions)

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