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BARN MILLET
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Dictionary entry overview: What does barn millet mean?
• BARN MILLET (noun)
The noun BARN MILLET has 1 sense:
1. a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing
Familiarity information: BARN MILLET used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
barn grass; barn millet; barnyard grass; Echinochloa crusgalli
Hypernyms ("barn 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 ("barn millet" is a member of...):
Echinochloa; genus Echinochloa (annual or perennial succulent grasses of warm regions)
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