Texas millet
- noun
- /ˈtɛksəs ˈmɪlɪt/
- US
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mijo de Texas
- Farmers in the region often plant Texas millet as a reliable source of hay for their livestock.
Examples
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Local agriculture experts recommend cutting Texas millet before it goes to seed for the best hay quality.
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The field was overgrown with Texas millet after a season of heavy rain.
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Farmers in Texas often grow Texas millet for hay.
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Did you see the Texas millet fields near Austin?
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Farmers in the region often plant Texas millet as a reliable source of hay for their livestock.
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Local agriculture experts recommend cutting Texas millet before it goes to seed for the best hay quality.
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The field was overgrown with Texas millet after a season of heavy rain.
Synonyms
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A small grain from a grass plant used as food for people and animals
A wild grass that grows in the southern United States and is often cut for hay
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward place-name + noun combination: 'Texas' specifies the origin or variety of 'millet', so a learner who knows both words can infer it is a type of millet associated with Texas. This kind of naming (place + crop/commodity) is cross-linguistically common and carries no idiomatic or metaphorical shift, so the meaning is compositionally transparent.
Etymology
Texas millet gets its name from farming: Texas shows the place where it was common and millet is a small grain plant. Farmers often grew it for 'hay', so the name came to mean 'a weedy grass grown for hay'.