native millet

English

Noun

native millet (countable and uncountable, plural native millets)

  1. (Australia) Any of several Australian grasses, typically of the genus Panicum, especially Panicum decompositum. [from 19th c.]
    • 2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 215:
      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.
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