italian millet

Questions about italian millet

What does italian millet mean?

italian millet means "coarse drought-resistant annual grass grown for grain, hay, and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and hay in United States".

What is another word for italian millet?

Close synonyms include foxtail millet, Hungarian grass, Setaria italica. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is italian millet a common word?

italian millet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.