'Indian millet' definitions:
Definition of 'Indian millet'
From: WordNet
noun
Sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa [syn: durra, doura, dourah, Egyptian corn, Indian millet, Guinea corn]
noun
Valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico [syn: mountain rice, silkgrass, silk grass, Indian millet, Oryzopsis hymenoides]
Definition of 'Indian 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 'Indian millet'
From: GCIDE
- Durra \Dur"ra\, n. [Ar. dhorra.] (Bot.) A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called also Indian millet, and Guinea corn. [Written also dhoorra, dhurra, doura, etc.] [1913 Webster]