foxtail millet; Italian millet
Refers to the grain Setaria italica, a small yellow millet used in birdseed and traditional Japanese cooking.
Foxtail millet is often used as bird feed.
My grandmother is good at making millet cakes.
rice cooked with millet
millet mochi; millet dough cake
steamed wheat gluten mixed with millet
non-glutinous millet
Standard kanji spelling for foxtail millet.
Kana spelling is common in everyday writing, especially when the kanji is not needed.
The kanji 粟 is a pictograph of a millet plant with grains on top. The reading あわ is native Japanese, with uncertain deeper origin.