millet

millet

1. a cereal grass, Setaria italica, cultivated for grain and animal fodder

2. 

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. any of various similar or related grasses, such as pearl millet and Indian millet

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Millet

Jean Fran?ois . 1814--75, French painter of the Barbizon school, noted for his studies of peasants at work

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millet

[′mil·ət]

(botany)

A common name applied to at least five related members of the grass family grown for their edible seeds.

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