MILLO
Grass used as cereal (“Panicum miliaceum”; Heb. “dohan”; Ar. “duhn”). The Lord commanded Ezekiel to prepare bread of various grains and to add millet to them (Ez. 4:9).
This plant is also widely used in western and southern Asia, northern Africa and southern Europe. Its cane constitutes excellent forage; The grain is used for fattening poultry and also for direct human consumption.
The Hebrew term. “dohan” perhaps also designated other species of cereals, particularly “Sorghum vulgare” or Indian millet, a taller grass, widely cultivated in India and southwest Asia under the name doura.