setaria italica

Questions about setaria italica

What does setaria italica mean?

setaria italica 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 setaria italica?

Close synonyms include foxtail millet, Italian millet, Hungarian grass. 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 setaria italica a common word?

setaria italica 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.