FOXTAIL MILLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foxtail millet mean? 

• FOXTAIL MILLET (noun)
  The noun FOXTAIL MILLET has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: FOXTAIL MILLET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOXTAIL MILLET (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

foxtail millet; Hungarian grass; Italian millet; Setaria italica

Hypernyms ("foxtail 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 "foxtail 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 ("foxtail millet" is a member of...):

genus Setaria; Setaria (annual or perennial grasses of warm regions: bristlegrasses)

 Context examples 

India grows a variety of coarse grains — including sorghum, pearl millet, maize, barley, and finger millet — as well as many ‘small millets’ such as kodo millet, little millet, foxtail millet, proso millet, and barnyard millet.

(Course grains better than rice for health, environment, SciDev.Net)