Mil·let (m -l  , m -), Jean François 1814-1875. French painter whose works, such as The Gleaners (1857) and Winter with Ravens (1862), portray peasant life and bucolic landscapes. He was a central figure of the Barbizon school. |
| mil·let (mlt) n. 1. a. An annual grass (Panicum milaiceum) cultivated in Eurasia for its grains and in North America for hay. b. The white grains of this plant. 2. Any of several similar or related grasses. [Middle English milet, from Old French, diminutive of mil, millet, from Latin milium; see mel  - in Indo-European roots.] |
millet [ˈmɪlɪt]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a cereal grass, Setaria italica, cultivated for grain and animal fodder
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants)
a. an East Indian annual grass, Panicum miliaceum, cultivated for grain and forage, having pale round shiny seeds
b. the seed of this plant
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of various similar or related grasses, such as pearl millet and Indian millet Related adj miliary
[via Old French from Latin milium; related to Greek melinē millet]
Millet (French) [milɛ]
n
(Biographies / Millet, Jean François (1814-1875) M, French, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter) Jean François (ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa). 1814-75, French painter of the Barbizon school, noted for his studies of peasants at work
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| Noun | 1. |  millet - any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusinefamily Graminaceae, family Gramineae, family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, grass family, Poaceae - the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane barn grass, barn millet, barnyard grass, Echinochloa crusgalli - a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing billion-dollar grass, Echinochloa frumentacea, Japanese barnyard millet, Japanese millet, sanwa millet - coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States Eleusine indica, yard grass, yardgrass, wire grass, goose grass - coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere African millet, coracan, corakan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, kurakkan, ragee, ragi - East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient panic grass - any grass of the genus Panicum; grown for grain and fodder sorghum - economically important Old World tropical cereal grass cereal, cereal grass - grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet |
| 2. |  Millet - French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875) | |
| 3. | millet - small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica |
millet noun
Related words
adjective miliary
adjective miliary
Translations
millet
n → Hirse f
n millet [ˈmilit]
a type of grain used as food The farmer grows millet. giers دُخْن، ذُرَه بَيْضاء просо proso hirse die Hirse κεχρί mijo hirss ارزن hirssi millet דוּחָן मोटा अनाज proso köles padi-padian hirsi miglio きび 기장, 수수 soros prosa milet gierst hirse proso painço mei просо proso proso proso hirs ข้าวฟ่าง akdarı, darı 稷, 黍的籽實 просо; пшоно باجرے کا پودا cây kê 稷, 黍的籽实
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