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    BULRUSH MILLET

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    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 beerplay

    Synonyms:

    bulrush millet; cattail millet; pearl millet; Pennisetum Americanum; Pennisetum glaucum

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("bulrush millet" is a kind of...):

    cereal; cereal grass (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)

    Holonyms ("bulrush millet" is a member of...):

    genus Pennisetum; Pennisetum (a genus of Old World grasses)

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