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(mī'lō) 
n., pl., -los.
An early-growing, usually drought-resistant grain sorghum, especially Sorghum bicolor, resembling millet.
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.]
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.
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A variety of sorghum used for grain, with the same toxic potential as fodder sorghum. Called also sorghum vulgare.
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Places
- Milo, Alberta, a village in Vulcan County, Canada
- Milo, Ethiopia
- Milos, an island and municipality in Cyclades Prefecture, South Aegean, Greece
- Milo River, a tributary of the Niger River, Guinea
- The Milo - a neighborhood in ancient Jerusalem (literally means: the landfill); possible source for the Jewish surname
- Milo, Sicily, a comune in the Province of Catania, Italy
- Milo, Tanzania, a village and ward in Ludewa District, Iringa
- Milo, Carmarthenshire, a village in Wales
United States
- Milo, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Huntington County
- Milo, Iowa, a city in Warren County
- Milo, Maine, a town in Piscataquis County
- Milo, Missouri, a village in Vernon County
- Milo, New York, a town in Yates County
- Milo, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community in Carter County
People
- Candi Milo, American voice actress
- Luciano Milo, Italian figure skater
- Milo (bishop), of Reims and Trier
- Milo Aukerman, American biochemist and lead singer of the punk rock band the Descendents
- Milo Dor, Serbian-Austrian author
- Milo Đukanović, former prime minister and president of Montenegro
- Milo of Croton, ancient Greek athlete
- Milo O'Shea, Irish actor
- Milo Radulovich, American military veteran suspected of communist sympathies during the Second Red Scare; portrayed in the movie Good Night, and Good Luck
- Roni Milo, 10th mayor of Tel Aviv and Israeli politician
- Milo Ventimiglia, American film actor
- Titus Annius Milo, ancient Roman politician
Fictional characters
- Brin Milo, a character in Dan Abnett's Warhammer 40,000 novel series
- Milo, a rodent-like mammal in the Stranger From the Mysterious Above episode of the American television series The Land Before Time
- Milo, the main character in Norton Juster's children's classic The Phantom Tollbooth
- Milo (Chatran in the original Japanese version), the orange tabby cat in the film Koneko Monogatari, known in English as The Adventures of Milo and Otis
- Milo, Stanley's dog in The Mask
- Milo Bloom, the resident journalist in Berkeley Breathed's comic strip Bloom County
- Milo Kerrigan, a "punch-drunk" boxer in the Australian television series Full Frontal
- Milo Minderbinder, a character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22
- Milo Pressman, a computer analyst in the American television series 24
- Milo Rambaldi, a medieval alchemist, engineer and mystic in the American television series Alias
- Milo James Thatch, the main character in the Disney animated films Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Atlantis: Milo's Return
- Professor Milo, an enemy of Batman in the DC Comics universe
- Scorpio Milo, a character from the Saint Seiya series of manga created by Masami Kurumada
- Milo Weener, a character in the BBC children's television programme Tweenies
- Milo from Fish Hooks
Other uses
- Milo, an agricultural crop, a common name for some varieties of commercial sorghum
- MILO (Mechatronics Intelligent Lovable Organism) a mobile robotic platform developed by RoboDynamics
- MILO (boot loader), a firmware replacement used for booting Linux on older Alpha AXP hardware
- Milo (chocolate bar), an Australian candy bar made with Milo powder
- Milo (drink), a brand name of chocolate malt drink by Nestlé
- Milo (magazine), a strength sports magazine
- Milo (video game), a first-person adventure-puzzle computer game
- Milo and Kate, a video game employing artificial intelligence in development by Lionhead Studios and designed for Microsoft's Kinect
- Venus de Milo, an ancient Greek statue
- Yourcodenameis:milo, a UK post-hardcore band
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