Milo

The term milo has several, unrelated meanings:

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• Milo of Croton was a famous Greek athlete.
• Titus Annius Milo was a Roman politician and gangster.
• The Venus de Milo is a famous statue.
• Milo is the Hawaiian word for a common, pantropical littoral or coastal tree (Thespesia populnea (L.) Sol. ex Correa). See Hawaiian hibiscus.
• Milo is a brand name of a chocolate malt drink from Nestlé.
• Greek for apple.
• Milo is a variety of grain sorghum.
• Milo, more properly Milos (formerly Melos) is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea.
• Milo, New York is a town in Yates County.
• Milo, Maine is a town in Piscataquis county in Maine.
• Milo, Iowa is a city in Warren county, Iowa.
• Milo is a town in the province of Catania on the island of Sicily.
• Candi Milo is a voice actress.
• Milo is the main character in Norton Juster's novel, The Phantom Tollbooth.
• Milo Minderbinder, also Milo for short, is a character in Joseph Heller's classic novel Catch-22.
• Milo is the name of the orange cat in the movie The Adventures of Milo and Otis, originally titled Koneko Monogatari.
• Milo is Stanley Ipkiss' dog on The Mask series.
• Milo Bloom is the resident journalist in Berke Breathed's comic strip Bloom County.
• Milo James Thatch is the main character in the Disney animated movies (voiced by Michael J. Fox) and its sequel, (voiced by James Arnold Taylor).
• Dr. Milo is a character in Escape from the Planet of the Apes played by Sal Mineo.
• Milo is the name of the baby ape in Escape from the Planet of the Apes (the son of Cornelius and Dr. Zira) who grows to be Caesar in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and Battle for the Planet of the Apes.
• Milo is the name of a strength sports magazine.

See also: Mylo.

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