pearl millet

pearl millet

n.

A tropical Old World grass (Pennisetum americanum) having long, dense flowering panicles and whitish grains that are used as food. Also called African millet.

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pearl millet

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a tall grass, Pennisetum glaucum, cultivated in Africa, E Asia, and the southern US as animal fodder and for its pearly white seeds, which are used as grain

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Noun

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pearl millet - 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 bulrush millet, cattail millet, Pennisetum Americanum, Pennisetum glaucum genus Pennisetum, Pennisetum - a genus of Old World grasses cereal, cereal grass - grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet