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Definition of Billion-dollar grass
1. Noun. Coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States.
Group relationships: Echinochloa, Genus Echinochloa
Generic synonyms: Millet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Billion-dollar Grass
Literary usage of Billion-dollar grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Cult, in SE Asia for the seed which is used for food. Occasionally cult, in US
for forage. Sometimes known as "billion-dollar grass." AS HITCHCOCK. ..."
2. A Manual of Farm Grasses by Albert Spear Hitchcock (1921)
"Billion dollar grass was exploited at one time in this way. It is well to be on
guard against deception or honest but unwarranted enthusiasm. ..."
3. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"... or billion-dollar grass, is an occasional escape from cultivation. It is
distinguished from ..."
4. Feeds and Feeding Abridged by William Arnon Henry, Frank Barron Morrison (1915)
"... a close relative of the common barnyard grass, has often been advertised
as "billion dollar grass." This plant is much coarser than the foxtail millets ..."
5. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"This millet is known as sanwa millet in India and in America has been called
billion-dollar grass. It is cultivated in Japan, India and other oriental ..."
6. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William MacKinley Klein (1993)
"W.Wight billion-dollar grass; Japanese millet Herbaceous annual Cultivated and
occasionally escaped. ..."
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