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Millet
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Millet has 3 senses
- millet(n = noun.plant) Array - any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine; Array is a member of family graminaceae, family gramineae, family poaceae, graminaceae, gramineae, grass family, poaceae
- millet(n = noun.person) jean francois millet - French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875); Array is a kind of painter
- millet(n = noun.food) Array - small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica; Array is a kind of cereal, food grain, grain
has particulars: barn grass, barn millet, barnyard grass, echinochloa crusgalli, billion-dollar grass, echinochloa frumentacea, japanese barnyard millet, japanese millet, sanwa millet, eleusine indica, goose grass, wire grass, yard grass, yardgrass, african millet, coracan, corakan, eleusine coracana, finger millet, kurakkan, ragee, ragi, panic grass, sorghum
is a kind of cereal, cereal grass
CIDE DICTIONARY
Millet, n. [F., dim. of mil, L. milium; akin to Gr. meli`nh, AS. mil.].
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 .
" Sorghum Halepense . -- or Penicillaria spicata . -- Sorghum vulgare . (See under Indian .) -- Setaria Italica , a coarse, rank-growing annual grass, valuable for fodder when cut young, and bearing nutritive seeds; -- called also Hungarian grass . -- Panicum Texanum . -- Milium effusum , a tall grass growing in woods."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
Millet, n.
1 any of various cereal plants, esp. Panicum miliaceum, bearing a large crop of small nutritious seeds.
2 the seed of this.
1 any of various cereal plants, esp. Panicum miliaceum, bearing a large crop of small nutritious seeds.
2 the seed of this.
Idiom
millet-grass a tall woodland grass, Milium effusum.
Etymology
ME f. F, dimin. of mil f. L milium
THESAURUS
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
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