noun
a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing
• Syn: ↑barn grass, ↑barn millet, ↑Echinochloa crusgalli
• Hypernyms: ↑millet
• Member Holonyms: ↑Echinochloa, ↑genus Echinochloa
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noun also barn grass or barnyard millet : a coarse annual grass (Echinochloa crusgalli) that has terminal panicles of one-sided flower clusters resembling spikes, is near cosmopolitan as a weed in cultivated ground, and is occasionally used for hay or grazing — see japanese millet
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a weedy, coarse grass, Echinochloa crus-galli, having a spikelike cluster of flowers. Also called barn grass.
[1835-45, Amer.]
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barnyard grass,
an annual grass that is a destructive weed of rice fields; jungle rice.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.