a graminaceous plant, Panicum miliaceum, native of India but extensively cultivated as a cereal in the warmer parts of Europe, growing three or four feet high, and bearing on a terminal spike or panicle a large crop of minute nutritious seeds, a round grain, pale-yellow in colour, kuivas kliimas vastupidav soojemate maade kõrsvili; hirsiterad, hirsitangud