Found 2 items, similar to Panicum miliaceum.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: Panicum miliaceum Panicum miliaceum n : extensively cultivated in Europe and Asia for its grain and in United States sometimes for forage [syn: broomcorn millet , hog millet]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Panicum miliaceum millet \mil"let\ (m[i^]l"l[e^]t), n. [F., dim. of mil, L. milium; akin to Gr. meli`nh, 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 millet 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 tall grass growing in woods. [1913 Webster]