About The Word Millet
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Millet
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What's The Definition Of Millet?
[n] small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica
[n] French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875) [n] any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine Synonyms | Synonyms for Millet: Jean Francois Millet Related Terms | Find terms related to Millet: breakfast food | cereal | cornflakes | dry cereal | farina | frumenty | grits | gruel | hasty pudding | hominy grits | hot cereal | kasha | loblolly | mush | oatmeal | porridge | puffed rice | puffed wheat | rolled oats | wheatflakes See Also | African millet | barn grass | barn millet | barnyard grass | billion-dollar grass | cereal | cereal | cereal grass | coracan | corakan | Echinochloa crusgalli | Echinochloa frumentacea | Eleusine coracana | Eleusine indica | family Graminaceae | family Gramineae | family Poaceae | finger millet | food grain | goose grass | grain | Graminaceae | Gramineae | grass family | Japanese barnyard millet | Japanese millet | kurakkan | painter | panic grass | Poaceae | ragee | ragi | sanwa millet | sorghum | wire grass | yard grass | yardgrass Millet In Webster's Dictionary \Mil"let\, n. [F., dim. of mil, L. milium; akin to Gr. ?,
AS. mil.] (Bot.)
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.
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