egyptian millet

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egyptian millet - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
        [1913 Webster]