Found 3 items, similar to millet.
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: millet
millet
n 1: any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage
grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria,
Sorghum, and Eleusine
2: French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875) [syn:
Jean Francois Millet
]
3: small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses
especially Setaria italica
English → English (gcide)
Definition: millet
millet
\mil"let\ (m[i^]l"l[e^]t), n. [F., dim. of mil, L.
milium; akin to Gr. meli`nh, 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 millet 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 tall grass growing in
woods.
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