milo

1. 1.

   small drought-resistant sorghums having large yellow or whitish grains

   Synonymsmilo maize

   Broadergrain sorghum

Other forms of milo

plural

miloes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about milo

What does milo mean?

milo means "small drought-resistant sorghums having large yellow or whitish grains".

How many syllables are in milo?

milo has 2 syllables: mi-lo. The stress falls on "mi". In IPA it is /ˈmaɪloʊ/.

What is another word for milo?

Close synonyms include milo maize. 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 milo a common word?

milo is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.