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.
millet grain · something extremely tiny
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.