'Millet' definitions:
Definition of 'millet'
(from WordNet)
noun
Any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
noun
French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875) [syn: Millet, Jean Francois Millet]
noun
Small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica
Definition of 'millet'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'millet'
From: Easton
- Millet (Heb. dohan; only in Ezek. 4:9), a small grain, the produce of the Panicum miliaceum of botanists. It is universally cultivated in the East as one of the smaller corn-grasses. This seed is the cenchros of the Greeks. It is called in India warree, and by the Arabs dukhan, and is extensively used for food, being often mixed with other grain. In this country it is only used for feeding birds.
Synonyms of 'millet'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- breakfast food,
- cereal,
- cornflakes,
- dry cereal,
- farina,
- frumenty,
- grits,
- gruel,
- hasty pudding,
- hominy grits,
- hot cereal,
- kasha,
- loblolly,
- mush,
- oatmeal,
- porridge,
- puffed rice,
- puffed wheat,
- rolled oats,
- wheatflakes
Words containing 'Millet'
- Arabian millet,
- Egyptian millet,
- Evergreen millet,
- German millet,
- Gray millet,
- Indian millet,
- Italian millet,
- Millet grass,
- Pearl millet,
- Texas millet,
- Wild millet,
- african millet,
- barn millet,
- broomcorn millet,
- bulrush millet,
- cattail millet,
- finger millet,
- foxtail millet,
- great millet,
- hog millet,
- japanese millet,
- sanwa millet,
- siberian millet,
- East Indian millet,
- golden wonder millet,
- japanese barnyard millet,
- jean francois millet