Millet

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An annual grass (Panicum milaiceum) cultivated in Eurasia for its grains and in North America for hay.
  • n. The white grains of this plant.
  • n. Any of several similar or related grasses.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food.
  • n. A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A cereal grass, Panicum miliaceum, known from antiquity, and still cultivated in the East and in southern and central Europe.
  • n. One of several other grasses: generally with a prefixed descriptive. See below
  • n. The green foxtail, Chætochloa viridis.
  • n. Same as Indian millet .
  • n. A people; a nation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
  • n. small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica
  • n. French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    food grain    grain    cereal    painter   
    Hyponym
    glaucum    ramosa    Brachiaria    miliaceum    tef    Eleusine    Paspalum    sumatrense    deflexa    sorghum   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    billet    skillet   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    maize    buckwheat    lentil    sorghum    oatmeal    cassava    flax    hominy    sesame    soybean