单词 | indian millet |
释义 | > as lemmasIndian millet 2. Chiefly with distinguishing word: any of various other grasses, chiefly drought-resistant, small-seeded cereal grasses grown esp. in warm countries; esp. (in full African millet, black millet, Indian millet, Turkey millet, or Turkish millet) Sorghum bicolor, and (in full foxtail millet, German millet, Hungarian millet, or Italian millet) Setaria italica.bulrush, finger, pearl, wood millet: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > millet > Indian millet > Indian millet plant or panicle millc1450 millet1548 Saracen's corn1585 sorghum1597 Guinea corn1697 whisk1757 broom-straw1785 kaffir corn1785 jowari1800 jowar1801 chicken corna1817 broom corn1819 mabela1824 cholum1858 Texas millet1858 dura1882 pearl millet1887 kaoliang1904 proso1907 milo1920 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. E.v Milium indicum is nowe muche sowen in Italy... It were better to cal it..turkish millet. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 32 Indian Millet..being well drest with Cheesyl and Milke, it maketh indifferent good meate. 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 73 Milium nigrum. Blacke Millet. 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 77 Tvrkie Millet is a stranger in England. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xl. 251 You must steepe your seedes in the oile of Sesamum, otherwise called Turkie millet. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1136 Melica sive Sorghum. Indian Millet. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1137 Turkie or Indian Millet, and of some [called] Italian Millet. 1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane iv. 156 Let Indian millet rear its corny reed. 1765 Museum Rusticum v. 74 The African millet, sorghum, milium nigrum. 1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 115 German Millet, Sitaria germanica... This variety was..imported from India, and acclimatized in Germany. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 225/1 Caffre millet (Holcus Cafer) is a native of the Cape of Good Hope. 1845 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. ii. 431 P. nigrum... Black-seeded Millet. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Negro-corn, a West Indian name for the Turkish millet or dhurra. 1861 R. Swinhoe Narr. N. China Campaign 1860 372 The chief produce of the country is the Kaouleang, or Barbadoes Millet (Sorghum). 1864 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 461/2 Penicillaria spicata, or Pennisetum typhoideum, is very extensively cultivated in Africa... It often receives the names Egyptian Millet and Guinea Corn. 1864 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene i. v. 149 The Hindu diet consists of some of the millets (cholum, raggee) [etc.]. 1874 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. (rev. ed.) Suppl. 1318/1 Texas Millet, Sorghum cernuum. 1878 Manufacturer & Builder Nov. 264 Some kinds are no better than straw; for instance, the Indian millet or Sorghum Vulgare, of which our broom-corn is a variety. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 97 Panicum decompositum,..‘Australian millet’, ‘Umbrella grass’... One of the most valuable of the Darling Downs (Queensland) grasses. 1890 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Italian millet... Its variety Germanica is known as German or Hungarian millet. 1896 Australasian 14 Mar. 488/5 One of the very best of the grasses found in the hot regions of Central Australia is the Australian millet, Panicum decompositum. 1906 N.E.D. at Millet1 Turkey millet. 1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) ii. xvi. 470 Setaria italica, ‘Foxtail Millet’, ‘Italian Millet’, ‘Boer Manna’ or ‘Hungarian Grass’; widely distributed in tropical countries. 1954 C. E. Hubbard Grasses (1959) Index 414 Fox-tail Millet. 1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. i. 32 Black millet heeds not the panicled Ear in the forming. 1965 Austral. Encycl. VII. 208/1 Dwarf and giant setarias (Setaria italica), known elsewhere under such names as foxtail millet or Hungarian millet, useful for seed, grazing, or hay. 1966 Bull. Entomol. Res. 57 119 A Phycitine Pyralid associated with Sorghum cultivars (Kaffir corn, dura or Indian millet) in Uganda, Tanzania and Sudan. 1978 Dict. S. Afr. Eng. 143/2 Manna, various millets usu. in compounds, boer ∼ Setaria italica, also called Italian millet. 1991 Bird Watching June 22 (caption) A Sudan Golden Sparrow eating African millet within sight of the North Sea. 1992 A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat Hist. Food vi. 153 Another species of wild grass, Setaria or manna, also known as ‘German millet’ in English, but as riz allemand, ‘German rice’, in French, was harvested in a similar way. 1992 F. McLynn Hearts of Darkness i. iii. 75 He..commented on the plentiful food: simsim, sweet potatoes, beans, finger millet, sorghum, maize and plantains. 1998 Agric. Res. 46 (Electronic ed.) 22 Foxtail millet joins other crops like proso millet and sunflowers in crop rotations that are slowly replacing the older routine of wheat one year, then fallow the next. < as lemmas |
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