PEARL MILLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pearl millet mean? 

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

1. tall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage; sometimes used in making beer

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEARL MILLET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage; sometimes used in making beer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bulrush millet; cattail millet; pearl millet; Pennisetum Americanum; Pennisetum glaucum

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

cereal; cereal grass (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)

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

genus Pennisetum; Pennisetum (a genus of Old World grasses)

 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)