| NOUN | plant | Echinochloa frumentacea, Japanese millet, billion-dollar grass, Japanese barnyard millet, sanwa millet | coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage |
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| Meaning | coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States. | |
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| Synonyms | Japanese millet, billion-dollar grass, Japanese barnyard millet, sanwa millet | |
| 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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