Millet, Panicum miliaceum.
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释义 | the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > millet > Indian millet > Indian millet plant or panicle (20) millc1450 Millet, Panicum miliaceum. millet1548 Chiefly with distinguishing word: any of various other grasses, chiefly drought-resistant, small-seeded cereal grasses grown esp. in warm countries… Saracen's corn1585 Sorghum vulgare; also = Saracen corn n. or buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum. sorghum1597 The cereal plant known as Indian millet, Guinea-corn, durra, etc. (Andropogon sorghum, also called Holcus sorghum and Sorghum vulgare). Guinea corn1697 durra, n. or Indian millet, Sorghum vulgare. whisk1757 The panicle or other part of certain plants used for making into brushes or brooms; esp. the panicle of the common millet or ‘broom-corn’ (Sorghum vu… broom-straw1785 the straw of broom corn; (also) the plant itself. kaffir corn1785 = sorghum, n. 1a. jowari1800 Indian millet, Sorghum vulgare, extensively cultivated in India. Also attributive. jowar1801 = jowari, n. chicken corna1817 †(a) a variety of maize having small ears with yellow seeds (obsolete); †(b) wheat of an inferior grade or type (cf. hen corn n. at hen, n.1… broom corn1819 The American name of the Common Millet, Sorghum vulgare, of which the panicles are made into brooms and stiff brushes; also the Sorghum saccharatum… mabela1824 Sorghum as grown in southern Africa, esp. for making beer; the meal or porridge made from this. cholum1858 A grass, the Indian millet or Guinea corn (Sorghum vulgare), largely grown for food in India and other parts of the East. Texas millet1858 dura1882 Short for dura mater, n. pearl millet1887 a white-seeded form of bulrush millet, Pennisetum americanum; (also) sorghum, Sorghum bicolor. kaoliang1904 The Indian millet, Sorghum vulgare. proso1907 In full proso millet. A kind of millet, Panicum miliaceum (family Poaceae (Gramineae)), thought to be of central Asian origin and grown as a cereal… milo1920 A drought-resistant variety of the cereal grass sorghum, Sorghum bicolor, introduced from Africa and grown esp. in the central United States. More… |
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