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JAPANESE BARNYARD MILLET
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Japanese barnyard millet mean?
• JAPANESE BARNYARD MILLET (noun)
The noun JAPANESE BARNYARD MILLET has 1 sense:
1. coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States
Familiarity information: JAPANESE BARNYARD MILLET used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• JAPANESE BARNYARD MILLET (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
billion-dollar grass; Echinochloa frumentacea; Japanese barnyard millet; Japanese millet; sanwa millet
Hypernyms ("Japanese barnyard 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 ("Japanese barnyard millet" is a member of...):
Echinochloa; genus Echinochloa (annual or perennial succulent grasses of warm regions)
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