mil·let /ˈmɪlət/
 稷,慄,玉蜀黍之類


 mil·let n.  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.

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 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: {Jean
         Francois Millet]
      3: small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses
         especially Setaria italica


 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.