billion-dollar_grass (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *billion-dollar grass*:
NOUN	plant	billion-dollar grass, Japanese millet, Japanese barnyard millet, sanwa millet, Echinochloa frumentacea	coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage

English > *billion-dollar grass*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States.
Synonyms	Japanese millet, Japanese barnyard millet, sanwa millet, Echinochloa frumentacea
Member of	Echinochloa, genus Echinochloa	annual or perennial succulent grasses of warm regions
Broader	millet	Any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
Catalan	echinochloa frumentacea

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