noun
coarse drought-resistant annual grass grown for grain, hay, and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and hay in United States
• Syn: ↑Italian millet, ↑Hungarian grass, ↑Setaria italica
• Hypernyms: ↑foxtail, ↑foxtail grass
• Hyponyms: ↑Siberian millet, ↑Setaria italica rubrofructa, ↑German millet, ↑golden wonder millet, ↑Setaria italica stramineofructa
• Member Holonyms: ↑Setaria, ↑genus Setaria
* * *
noun : a coarse drought-resistant but frost-sensitive annual grass (Setaria italica) with a thick heavy elongated spicate inflorescence that is probably derived from an Old World bristle grass (S. viridis), has differentiated into a number of varieties under cultivation, and is grown for grain, hay, and forage in the Old World and chiefly for green fodder and silage in the U.S. — called also Hungarian grass, Italian millet; see german millet, siberian millet
* * *
a grass, Setaria italica, of numerous varieties, introduced into the U.S. from Europe and Asia, and grown chiefly for use as hay.
[1895-1900]
* * *
foxtail millet,
a grain native to Europe and Asia, grown in the United States for hay, pasture, and fodder.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.