MILLET

millet

(noun) small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica

Millet, Jean Francois Millet

(noun) French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)

millet

(noun) any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Millet

A surname.

A town in Alberta, Canada

Etymology 1

Noun

millet (countable and uncountable, plural millets)

Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.

Hyponyms

• (food grains): Urochloa deflexa (syn. Brachiaria deflexa; Guinea millet), Urochloa ramosa (syn. Brachiaria ramosa; brown-top millet), Coix lacryma-jobi (Job's tears, adlay millet), Digitaria exilis, Echinochloa, Eleusine coracana, Eragrostis tef, Panicum miliaceum, Urochloa ramosa (syn. Panicum ramosum), Panicum sumatrense, Paspalum scrobiculatum, Pennisetum glaucum, Setaria italica, Sorghum

Etymology 2

Noun

millet (plural millets)

(historical) A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.

Source: Wiktionary

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Mil"let, n. Etym: [F., dim. of mil, L. milium; akin to Gr. mil.] (Bot.)

Definition: The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica.

Note: Arabian millet is Sorghum Halepense.

– Egyptian or East Indian, millet is Penicillaria spicata.

– Indian millet is Sorghum vulgare. (See under Indian.) -- Italian millet is Setaria Italica, a coarse, rank-growing annual grass, valuable for fodder when cut young, and bearing nutritive seeds; -- called also Hungarian grass.

– Texas millet is Panicum Texanum.

– Wild millet, or Millet grass, is Milium effusum, a tail grass growing in woods.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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