foxtail millet

 

foxtail millet (countable and uncountable, plural foxtail millets)

1. The second-most widely planted species of millet, Setaria italica, which is the most important species of millet in East Asia.

• (Setaria italica): Italian millet, Hungarian grass, dwarf setaria, foxtail bristle-grass, giant setaria, green foxtail, German millet, Hungarian millet.

• (species called millet): Guinea millet (Urochloa deflexa, syn. Brachiaria deflexa); browntop millet (Urolchloa ramosa, syn. Brachiaria ramosa); Adlay millet (Coix lacryma-jobi); Polish millet (Digitaria exilis), Japanese barnyard millet, Indian barnyard millet, Sawa millet, Burgu millet, barnyard millet (Echinochloa spp.); finger millet (Eleusine coracana); proso millet, common millet, broom corn millet, hog millet, white millet (Panicum miliaceum); little millet (Panicum sumatrense); kodo millet (Paspalum scrobiculatum); pearl millet (Cenchrus americanus, syn. Pennisetum glaucum)

• green foxtail millet (Setaria viridis)
• wild foxtail millet (Setaria viridis)

• Eragrostis tef
• white fonio
• black fonio

•   foxtail millet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•   Setaria italica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
•   Setaria italica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• foxtail millet at USDA Plants database