An early-growing, usually drought-resistant grain sorghum, especially Sorghum bicolor, resembling millet.
[Possibly from Afrikaans mealie, corn, probably from Portuguese milho, from Latin milium, millet. See millet.]
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An early-growing, usually drought-resistant grain sorghum, especially Sorghum bicolor, resembling millet.
[Possibly from Afrikaans mealie, corn, probably from Portuguese milho, from Latin milium, millet. See millet.]
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What's a nice African grass like milo doing on the western plains of the United States? Well, it's at home in a dry land, and that's why it was imported. It's a sorghum grain that doesn't need nearly as much water and care as corn, yet its seeds contain more protein than corn and just as much starch. In addition to making feed for farm animals and flour or meal for people, milo has lots of industrial uses. The waxy coat of the seed is used for shoe and furniture polish. Milo also shows up in adhesives, laundry starch, and sizing for fabrics.
Milo usually goes by the full name milo maize because it is a kind of maize, closely related to corn. It was introduced to the United States from South Africa in the late nineteenth century. A circular of the Georgia Department of Agriculture in 1883 mentions it by name: "My attention was some time since called to the claims of 'Ivory wheat' and 'Millo Maize' to a place in our long list of profitable food crops." The milo that that writer planted grew to a height of twelve feet.
In South Africa, the name comes from the Sotho language, where the word is maili. Sotho is spoken in two versions, northern and southern, by well over six million people in South Africa. It is a national language there and in Lesotho, the land-locked kingdom surrounded by South Africa. There it is spoken by 85 percent of the population, about one and a half million people.
Sotho is a Bantu language of the Niger-Congo language family. Another English word imported from Sotho is lechwe (1857), the name of an antelope that likes to wade in water.
A variety of sorghum used for grain, with the same toxic potential as fodder sorghum. Called also sorghum vulgare.
Milo is a male name meaning Merciful.
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