1. millet(n = noun.plant) - any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine;
is a kind of cereal, cereal grass
is a member of family graminaceae, family gramineae, family poaceae, graminaceae, gramineae, grass family, poaceae
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
2. millet(n = noun.person) jean francois millet - French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875);
is a kind of painter
3. millet(n = noun.food) - small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica;
is a kind of cereal, food grain, grain
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
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millet, n.
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
african millet, barn millet, broomcorn millet, bulrush millet, cattail millet, evergreen millet, finger millet, foxtail millet, german millet, golden wonder millet, great millet, hog millet, indian millet, italian millet, japanese barnyard millet, japanese millet, jean francois millet, pearl millet, sanwa millet, siberian millet, texas millet