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
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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