native millet

noun

Any of several Australian grasses, typically of the genus Panicum, especially Panicum decompositum.

First used 19th c.
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Meanings

nounnative millet (countable and uncountable, plural native millets)

plural native millets

  1. AustraliacountableuncountableAny of several Australian grasses, typically of the genus Panicum, especially Panicum decompositum.First known use 19th c.

    The Mutti Mutti, Latji Latji, and Barkinji women and children combined forces with Japanese artist Yutaka Kobayshi in 2015 to harvest and extract grain from native millet.

    2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 215
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