pearl millet

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pearl millet

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An annual grass (Pennisetum glaucum) having long dense panicles, first domesticated in Africa for its grains and now grown in Africa and India for food and in North America chiefly as a forage crop.

pearl millet

n
(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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Noun1.pearl millet - tall grass having cattail like spikespearl 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
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