foxtail millet
noun
: a coarse drought-resistant but frost-sensitive annual grass (Setaria italica) grown for grain, hay, and forage
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Then, pile in artichokes, smaller gourds, pears, bittersweet berries, foxtail millet grass, and feathers.
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Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2023
This places the initial stages of cannabis’ domestication in a time and place that is already known as a hotbed of agricultural innovations—where modern crops including rice, broomcorn and foxtail millet, soybean, foxnut, apricot and peach were launched.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2021
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Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2023
This places the initial stages of cannabis’ domestication in a time and place that is already known as a hotbed of agricultural innovations—where modern crops including rice, broomcorn and foxtail millet, soybean, foxnut, apricot and peach were launched.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2021
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“Foxtail millet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foxtail%20millet. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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