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BARN MILLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barn millet mean? 

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

1. a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazingplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


BARN MILLET (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

barn grass; barn millet; barnyard grass; Echinochloa crusgalli

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

millet (any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine)

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

Echinochloa; genus Echinochloa (annual or perennial succulent grasses of warm regions)


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