ETYM French, dim. of mil, Latin milium; akin to AS. mil.
1. Any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine.
2. Extensively cultivated in Europe and Asia for its grain and in United States sometimes for forage; SYN. broomcorn millet, hog millet, Panicum miliaceum.
3. Small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica.
Any of several grasses, family Gramineae, of which the grains are used as a cereal food and the stems as fodder.
Species include Panicum miliaceum, extensively cultivated in the warmer parts of Europe, and Sorghum bicolor, also known as durra. + prikaži više

ETYM New Lat., probably of Chinese origin.
1. Economically important Old World tropical cereal grass.
2. Made from juice of sweet sorghum; SYN. sorghum molasses.
Kind of tropical forage grass, yielding syrup. Or great millet or Guinea corn; Any cereal grass of the genus Sorghum, native to Africa but cultivated widely in India, China, the US, and S Europe. The seeds are used for making bread. Durra is a member of the genus.
Around 58 million metric tons of sorghum are grown worldwide on 44 million hectares. It is vulnerable to the fungus ergot, which can destroy whole crops. In 1994 a simple fungicidal spray of garlic and water was found to be nearly 100% successful in combatting ergot. + prikaži više