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[syn: foxtail millet, Italian millet, Hungarian grass, Setaria italica]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Hungarian \Hun*ga"ri*an\, a.
Of or pertaining to Hungary or to the people of Hungary. --
n. A native or one of the people of Hungary.
[1913 Webster]
Hungarian grass. See Italian millet, under Millet.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Hungarian grass
n 1: coarse drought-resistant annual grass grown for grain, hay,
and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and
hay in United States [syn: foxtail millet, Italian
millet, Hungarian grass, Setaria italica]