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millet |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Millet \Mil"let\, n. [F., dim. of mil, L. milium; akin to Gr ?, 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}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Note: {Arabian millet} is {Sorghum Halepense}. {Egyptian 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 tail grass growing in woods. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: millet n 1: any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine 2: extensively cultivated in Europe and Asia for its grain and in United States sometimes for forage [syn: {broomcorn millet}, {hog millet}, {Panicum miliaceum}] 3: small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [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.
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