Botanical info | An annual plant, 30 - 90 cm high, cultivated all over India up to 2100 m, leaves linear, tapering from a broad base, up to 60 cm long, glabrous or finely hairy, panicles compound, contracted, nodding, spikelets glabrous, fruits caryopsis |
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1095) śyāmāka, m. a kind of cultivated millet (Panicum Frumentaceum; pl. grains of it), VS. &c. &c.; N. of a man, Divyāv.; pl. N. of a people, VarBṛS.; (-mAka), mf(ī)n. made of Panicum Frumentaceum, TS. ŚrS., MBh.; m. a patr. g. vidādi; gopa-vanādi (pl.) Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1094) śyāmaka, mfn. dark-coloured, dark, VarBṛS.; m. Panicum Frumentaceum (a kind of cultivated millet), L.; a gramineous plant MW.; N. of a man g. bidādi; of a brother of Vasu-deva, BhP.; a patr. g. bidādi (pl. g. gopa-vanādi); pl. N. of a people, MārkP.; (ikā), f. blackness, Kum., Kād., Hcar.; impurity, Ragh., Kād., Hcar.; a white-spotted blackish deer, L.; n. a kind of grass, L. Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 1378) cāmai: 1. Poor-man's millet, sown in Āvaṇi and maturing in six weeks to four months, Panicum crusgalli; 2. Little millet, Panicum miliare; 3. Common millet, Panicum miliaceum; 4. A stout-stemmed herb; 5. A plant
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