Bengal Grass

Foxtail millet

Foxtail millet, scientific name Setaria italica, is an annual grass grown for human food. It is the second-most widely planted species of millet and the most grown millet species in Asia. The oldest evidence of foxtail millet cultivation was found along the ancient course of the Yellow River in Cishan, China, carbon dated to be from around 8,000 years ago.

Bengal

Bengal is a geographical, ethnolinguistic, historically geopolitical region in South Asia north of the Bay of Bengal. It is politically divided between the sovereign state of Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, Tripura, Barak Valley, parts of Assam and Jharkhand and Maungdaw District of the Rakhine State of Myanmar.

Grass

Grass refers to various families of plants. The three major families of grasslike plants are true grasses (Poaceae), sedges (Cyperaceae), and rushes (Juncaceae). Lawns and pasturelands are typically composed of true grasses, five of which cover 46% of the world's arable land: rice, wheat, maize, barley, and sugar cane.

grass

Noun

1. Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
2. Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.

Verb

1. To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
2. To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.