HyperDic: setaria_italica

English > 1 sense of the expression Setaria italica:
NOUNplantSetaria italica, foxtail millet, Italian millet, Hungarian grasscoarse drought-resistant annual grass grown for grain, hay, and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and hay in United States
English > Setaria italica: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningcoarse drought-resistant annual grass grown for grain, hay, and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and hay in United States.
Synonymsfoxtail millet, Italian millet, Hungarian grass
Member ofSetaria, genus Setariaannual or perennial grasses of warm regions
NarrowerGerman millet, golden wonder millet, Setaria italica stramineofructamillet having yellow grains in large drooping spikes
Siberian millet, Setaria italica rubrofructamillet having orange to reddish grains in long bristly spikes
Broaderfoxtail, foxtail grassgrasses of the genera ... / genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes

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