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CATTAIL MILLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cattail millet mean? 

CATTAIL MILLET (noun)
  The noun CATTAIL MILLET has 1 sense:

1. tall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage; sometimes used in making beerplay

  Familiarity information: CATTAIL MILLET used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CATTAIL MILLET (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Tall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage; sometimes used in making beer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bulrush millet; cattail millet; pearl millet; Pennisetum Americanum; Pennisetum glaucum

Hypernyms ("cattail millet" is a kind of...):

cereal; cereal grass (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)

Holonyms ("cattail millet" is a member of...):

genus Pennisetum; Pennisetum (a genus of Old World grasses)


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