'Arabian millet' definitions:
Definition of 'Arabian millet'
From: GCIDE
- millet \mil"let\ (m[i^]l"l[e^]t), n. [F., dim. of mil, L. milium; akin to Gr. meli`nh, AS. mil.] (Bot.) The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica.
- Note:
- Arabian millet is Sorghum Halepense.
- Egyptian millet or
- East Indian millet is Penicillaria spicata.
- Indian millet is Sorghum vulgare. (See under Indian.)
- Italian millet is Setaria Italica, a coarse, rank-growing annual grass, valuable for fodder when cut young, and bearing nutritive seeds; -- called also Hungarian grass.
- Texas millet is Panicum Texanum.
- Wild millet, or
- Millet grass, is Milium effusum, a tall grass growing in woods. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Arabian millet'
From: GCIDE
- Johnson grass \John"son grass`\ [Named after W. Johnson of Alabama, who planted it about 1840-1845.] (Bot.) A tall perennial grass (Sorghum Halepense), valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, {Evergreen millet}, and Arabian millet. [1913 Webster]