What is "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 It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag at Henneberg.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It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys.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.

millet \mil"let\ (m[i^]l"l[e^]t), n. [F., dim. of mil, L. milium; akin to Gr. meli`nh, 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.

Note:

Arabian millet is Sorghum Halepense.

Egyptian millet 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 tall grass growing in woods.

Moha \Mo"ha\, n. (Bot.) A kind of millet ( Setaria Italica); German millet.