Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various annual grasses with small grains that are harvested for food, livestock feed, and birdseed, especially proso millet.
- noun The grains of any of these plants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A people; a nation.
- noun The green foxtail, Chætochloa viridis.
- noun Same as
Indian millet . - noun A cereal grass, Panicum miliaceum, known from antiquity, and still cultivated in the East and in southern and central Europe.
- noun One of several other grasses: generally with a prefixed descriptive. See below
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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 , andSetaria Italica .
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- noun Any of a group of various types of
grass or itsgrains used as food. - noun historical A
semi-autonomous confessional community under theOttoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
- noun small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica
- noun French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They cultivate a great deal of Indian corn here, which they call millet; it is planted, but not yet up.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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Nachani or Finger millet is the red colored grain that is so full of health.
Nachani Kobi Palak Kabab Anjali 2007
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Nachani or Finger millet is the red colored grain that is so full of health.
Archive 2007-04-01 Anjali 2007
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Japanese millet, a domesticated variant of wild millet, is popular with ducks but overlooked by hunters.
What's on the Menu 2003
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This indeed is plainly affirmed of the Aino: they call the millet the divine cereal, the cereal deity, and they pray to and worship him before they will eat of the cakes made from the new millet.
Chapter 50. Eating the God. § 1. The Sacrament of First-Fruits 1922
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This indeed is plainly affirmed of the Aino: they call the millet "the divine cereal," "the cereal deity," and they pray to and worship him before they will eat of the cakes made from the new millet.
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This indeed is plainly affirmed of the Aino: they call the millet "the divine cereal," "the cereal deity," and they pray to and worship him before they will eat of the cakes made from the new millet.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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Generally, their food consists largely of a kind of millet, which is almost tasteless ...
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Generally, their food consists largely of a kind of millet, which is almost tasteless ...
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet 2009
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Generally, their food consists largely of a kind of millet, which is almost tasteless ...
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