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SETARIA ITALICA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Setaria italica mean?
• SETARIA ITALICA (noun)
The noun SETARIA ITALICA 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: SETARIA ITALICA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("Setaria italica" 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 "Setaria italica"):
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 ("Setaria italica" is a member of...):
genus Setaria; Setaria (annual or perennial grasses of warm regions: bristlegrasses)
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