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  (') pronunciation
n., pl. -los.

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.]


 
 

(MY Life Online) A handheld Internet appliance from Sony that provides Web access, instant messaging, photo sharing, music and video playback and a Skype telephone. Introduced in 2006, the tiny mylo uses a Wi-Fi connection and a thumb keyboard for data entry.

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Designed as an alternative to a smartphone without the monthly fee, Sony's mylo packs a lot of functions into a small space. The screen slides up to reveal the thumb keyboard.



 

from Sotho
This word originated in South Africa and Lesotho

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.



 
(Titus Annius Papianus Milo), 95 B.C.–47 B.C., Roman partisan leader. As tribune of the people (57 B.C.) he obtained the recall from exile of Cicero. At the insistence of Pompey, Milo hired a gang to fight the gang of Clodius. The rivals kept Rome in an uproar until it ended (52 B.C.) in the death of Clodius in an affray at Bovillae, on the Appian Way. Pompey was appointed sole consul to restore order in the city, and Milo was brought to trial. Cicero, his advocate, was so intimidated that he did not deliver his oration, which he later published (Pro Milone). Milo was exiled to Massilia, joined the insurrection of Marcus Caelius in Italy, and was defeated, captured, and killed. Milo's wife was Sulla's daughter.
 

A variety of sorghum used for grain, with the same toxic potential as fodder sorghum. Called also sorghum vulgare.

 
Wikipedia: Milo (disambiguation)


Milo is a male name meaning Merciful.

Other references may refer to:

Places

People

Fictional characters

Other meanings

  • Milo (name meaning Merciful), better than strong, someone who is apparent in victory against opponents and becomes merciful.
  • Milo (English/European/Indian), true origin unknown, possible Hindu Sanskrit origin name.
  • Venus de Milo, a famous statue
  • Milo, a common name some varieties of commercial sorghum for genus of about 20 species of grasses, raised for grain
  • Milo (drink) is the brand name of a chocolate malt drink by Nestlé
  • Milo (magazine), a strength sports magazine

Milo can refer to:

  • MILO (boot loader), a firmware replacement used for booting Linux on older Alpha AXP hardware
  • MILO (game), a first-person adventure-puzzle computer game

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