great millet

Related to great millet: Common millet, millet seed

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great millet - important for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves

kaffir, kaffir corn, kafir corn, Sorghum bicolor

sorghum - economically important Old World tropical cereal grass

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Moench) is a [C.sub.4] herbaceous annual plant, and is popularly known by a particular names in particular country like great millet, kafir corn, durra, mtama, jowar, kaoliang and milo in West Africa, South Africa, Sudan, Eastern Africa, India, China, United States respectively (Purseglove, 1972).

Regulation of Sugar in Sweet Sorghum Crop--A Review

Merthyr town centre was brought to a standstill, something which hasn't happened since the great Millets white towelling sock sale of 1996.