milon.

Brit.

/ˈmʌɪləʊ/, U.S.

/ˈmaɪloʊ/

Forms: 1800s– millo, 1800s– milo. Also with capital initial.

Origin: Of uncertain origin.

Etymology: Origin uncertain; compare Southern Sotho maili, plural of lēili.

A drought-resistant variety of the cereal grass sorghum, Sorghum bicolor, introduced from Africa and grown esp. in the central United States. More fully milo maize.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [adjective] > of maize > of maize plants

in silk1770

milo1882

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

millc1450

millet1548

Saracen's corn1585

sorghum1597

Guinea corn1697

whisk1757

broom-straw1785

kaffir corn1785

jowari1800

jowar1801

chicken corna1817

broom corn1819

mabela1824

cholum1858

Texas millet1858

dura1882

pearl millet1887

kaoliang1904

proso1907

milo1920

1882 Rep. Comm. Agric. Georgia 1881–2 23 My attention was some time since called to the claims of ‘Ivory wheat’ and ‘Millo Maize’ to a place in our long list of profitable food crops.

1887 Florida Dispatch 14 Feb. 165/3 Mr. Jones recommends the substitution of Kaffir corn, Milo Maize, etc., for a part of the corn crop.

1920 U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1147. 3 Milo has long since passed the experimental stage as a farm crop in the southwestern United States.

1937 Handbk. Farmers S. Afr. (S. Afr. Dept. Agric.) (new ed.) 684 Early types not belonging to the kaffir corns, such as Hegari, Milo and Feterita have been tried but have not met with wide success.

1965 T. Capote In Cold Blood (1966) i. 7 One of these barns..housed a dark, pungent hill of milo grain.

1972 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 12 Mar. 11/1 Milomaize is a white corn, something like wheat. We ground it in an old coffee grinder for bread, also boiled it for porridge.

1996 A. Outwater Water 94 Up came the water for stock troughs and the vegetable garden and fruit trees, and soon for cash crops of corn and milo and wheat and cotton.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	milo
释义	milon. Brit. /ˈmʌɪləʊ/, U.S. /ˈmaɪloʊ/ Forms: 1800s– millo, 1800s– milo. Also with capital initial. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain; compare Southern Sotho maili, plural of lēili. A drought-resistant variety of the cereal grass sorghum, Sorghum bicolor, introduced from Africa and grown esp. in the central United States. More fully milo maize. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [adjective] > of maize > of maize plants in silk1770 milo1882 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 millc1450 millet1548 Saracen's corn1585 sorghum1597 Guinea corn1697 whisk1757 broom-straw1785 kaffir corn1785 jowari1800 jowar1801 chicken corna1817 broom corn1819 mabela1824 cholum1858 Texas millet1858 dura1882 pearl millet1887 kaoliang1904 proso1907 milo1920 1882 Rep. Comm. Agric. Georgia 1881–2 23 My attention was some time since called to the claims of ‘Ivory wheat’ and ‘Millo Maize’ to a place in our long list of profitable food crops. 1887 Florida Dispatch 14 Feb. 165/3 Mr. Jones recommends the substitution of Kaffir corn, Milo Maize, etc., for a part of the corn crop. 1920 U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1147. 3 Milo has long since passed the experimental stage as a farm crop in the southwestern United States. 1937 Handbk. Farmers S. Afr. (S. Afr. Dept. Agric.) (new ed.) 684 Early types not belonging to the kaffir corns, such as Hegari, Milo and Feterita have been tried but have not met with wide success. 1965 T. Capote In Cold Blood (1966) i. 7 One of these barns..housed a dark, pungent hill of milo grain. 1972 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 12 Mar. 11/1 Milomaize is a white corn, something like wheat. We ground it in an old coffee grinder for bread, also boiled it for porridge. 1996 A. Outwater Water 94 Up came the water for stock troughs and the vegetable garden and fruit trees, and soon for cash crops of corn and milo and wheat and cotton. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1882
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