millet

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.

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[Middle English milet, from Old French, diminutive of mil, millet, from Latin milium; see mel- in Indo-European roots.]

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millet

Noun

a cereal grass cultivated for its edible grain and as animal fodder [Latin milium]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	millet - any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine family 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) Jean Francois Millet
	3.	millet - small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica food grain, grain, cereal - foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

Translations

millet [ˈmɪlɪt] n → mijo

millet [ˈmɪlɪt] n → millet m

millet [ˈmɪlɪt] n → Hirse f

millet [ˈmɪlɪt] n → miglio

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millet

n millet [ˈmilit]

a type of grain used as food The farmer grows millet.giersدُخْن، ذُرَه بَيْضاءпросоprosohirsedie Hirseκεχρίmijohirssارزنhirssimilletדוּחָןमोटा अनाजprosokölespadi-padianhirsimiglioきび기장sorosprosamiletgiersthirseprosopainçomeiпросоprosoprosoprosohirsข้าวฟ่างakdarı, darı稷, 黍的籽實просо; пшоноباجرے کا پوداcây kê稷, 黍的籽实