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Setaria glauca
Pigeon grass (Bot.), a kind of foxtail grass (Setaria glauca), of some value as fodder. The seeds are eagerly eaten by pigeons and other birds. Pigeon hawk. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A small American falcon (Falco columbarius). The adult male is dark slate-blue above, streaked with black on the back; beneath, whitish or buff, streaked with brown. The tail is banded. (b) The American sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter velox, or fuscus). Pigeon hole. (a) A hole for pigeons to enter a pigeon house. (b) See Pigeonhole. (c) pl. An old English game, in which balls were rolled through little arches. --Halliwell. Pigeon house, a dovecote. Pigeon pea (Bot.), the seed of Cajanus Indicus; a kind of pulse used for food in the East and West Indies; also, the plant itself. Pigeon plum (Bot.), the edible drupes of two West African species of Chrysobalanus (C. ellipticus and C. luteus). Pigeon tremex. (Zo["o]l.) See under Tremex. Pigeon wood (Bot.), a name in the West Indies for the wood of several very different kinds of trees, species of Dipholis, Diospyros, and Coccoloba. Pigeon woodpecker (Zo["o]l.), the flicker. Prairie pigeon. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The upland plover. (b) The golden plover. [Local, U.S.]
Setaria Italica
Millet Mil"let, n. [F., dim. of mil, L. milium; akin to Gr. ?, 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.
Setaria Italica
Note: Arabian millet is Sorghum Halepense. Egyptian 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 tail grass growing in woods.
Setaria Italica
Moha Mo"ha, n. (Bot.) A kind of millet (Setaria Italica); German millet.
Setaria Italica
German Ger"man, a. [L. Germanus. See German, n.] Of or pertaining to Germany. German Baptists. See Dunker. German bit, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical pod and a scew point. German carp (Zo["o]l.), the crucian carp. German millet (Bot.), a kind of millet (Setaria Italica, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food. German paste, a prepared food for caged birds. German process (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary. --Raymond. German sarsaparilla, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract. German sausage, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly cooked. German silver (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical with the Chinese alloy packfong. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys. German steel (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel. German text (Typog.), a character resembling modern German type, used in English printing for ornamental headings, etc., as in the words, Note: This line is German Text. German tinder. See Amadou.

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- ined. Setaria apiculata (Scribn. & Merr.) K.Schum. Setaria appendiculata (Hack.) Stapf Setaria arizonica Rominger Setaria atrata Hack. Setaria australiensis...
- Foxtail millet, scientific name Setaria italica (synonym Pani**** itali**** L.), is an annual gr**** grown for human food. It is the second-most widely planted...
- Setaria viridis is a species of gr**** known by many common names, including green foxtail, green bristlegr****, and wild foxtail millet. It is sometimes...
- Pennisetum ****atum (L.) Körn. Phleum africanum Lour. Setaria glauca (L.) P.Beauv. Setaria rufa Chevall. Setaria sericea (Aiton) P.Beauv. Setariopsis glauca (L...
- Setaria verticillata is a species of gr**** known by the common names hooked bristlegr****, rough bristle-gr**** and bristly foxtail. It is native to Europe...
- Setaria palmifolia is a species of gr**** known by the common names palmgr****, highland pitpit, hailans pitpit, short pitpit, broadleaved bristlegr****...
- Setaria pumila is a species of gr**** known by many common names, including yellow foxtail, yellow bristle-gr****, pigeon gr****, and cattail gr****. It is...
- Setaria megaphylla, the broad-leaved bristle gr****, big-leaf bristle gr****, ribbon bristle gr****, or bigleaf bristlegr****, is native to south-eastern...
- Setaria basiclada, synonym Paspalidium basicladum, is a species of gr**** in the family Poaceae native to Australia, first described by Dorothy Kate Hughes...
- Aoupinieta setaria is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in New Caledonia in the south-west Pacific Ocean. The wingspan is about...