资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Millet \Mil"let\, n. [F., dim. of mil, L. milium; akin to Gr. ?,
   AS. mil.] (Bot.)
   The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an
   abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of
   Germany and Southern Europe are {Panicum miliaceum}, and
   {Setaria Italica}.



   Note:

   {Arabian millet} is {Sorghum Halepense}.

   {Egyptian or East Indian},

   {millet} is {Penicillaria spicata}.

   {Indian millet} is {Sorghum vulgare}. (See under {Indian}.)
      

   {Italian millet} is {Setaria Italica}, a coarse, rank-growing
      annual grass, valuable for fodder when cut young, and
      bearing nutritive seeds; -- called also {Hungarian grass}.
      

   {Texas millet} is {Panicum Texanum}.

   {Wild millet}, or

   {Millet grass}, is {Milium effusum}, a tail grass growing in
      woods.

Moha \Mo"ha\, n. (Bot.)
   A kind of millet ({Setaria Italica}); German millet.

German \Ger"man\, a. [L. Germanus. See {German}, n.]
   Of or pertaining to Germany.

   {German Baptists}. See {Dunker}.

   {German bit}, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical
      pod and a scew point.

   {German carp} (Zo["o]l.), the crucian carp.

   {German millet} (Bot.), a kind of millet ({Setaria Italica},
      var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food.

   {German paste}, a prepared food for caged birds.

   {German process} (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore
      in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary.
      --Raymond.

   {German sarsaparilla}, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract.
      

   {German sausage}, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly
      cooked.

   {German silver} (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and
      tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in
      the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying
      proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag
      at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to
      make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical
      with the Chinese alloy {packfong}. It was formerly much
      used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings
      of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other
      white alloys.

   {German steel} (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a
      forge, with charcoal for fuel.

   {German text} (Typog.), a character resembling modern German
      type, used in English printing for ornamental headings,
      etc., as in the words,

   Note: This line is German Text.

   {German tinder}. See {Amadou}.

资料来源 : WordNet®

Setaria italica
     n : coarse drought-resistant annual grass grown for grain, hay
         and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and
         hay in United States [syn: {foxtail millet}, {Italian
         millet}, {Hungarian grass}]