1.
2.
[syn: Millet, Jean Francois Millet]
3. small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
millet
n 1: any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage
grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria,
Sorghum, and Eleusine
2: French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875) [syn: Millet,
Jean Francois Millet]
3: small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially
Setaria italica
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
20 Moby Thesaurus words for "millet":
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
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:
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.