Definition of millet Millet

/mɪˈlʌt/ - [milut] - Mil•let

We found 9 definitions of millet from 6 different sources.

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Noun

Plural: millets

millet - any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
  cereal grass, cereal a breakfast food prepared from grain
  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
millet - small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica
millet - French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)
  Jean Francois Millet
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • millet (n.)
    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.

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  • millet
    A group of small-seeded species of cereal crops, widely grown around the world for food and fodder.

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  • Millet is a type of grain that is eaten. There are many types of millet.

    Millets is a great part of nutrition; it includes three grams of protein per half serving and one gram of fiber per half serving..6 miligrams is the amount of iron included in each half serving of millet.

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