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 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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 Hun·ga·ri·an a. Of or pertaining to Hungary or to the people of Hungary. -- n. A native or one of the people of Hungary.
 Hungarian grass. See Italian millet, under Millet.
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 Italian millet
      n : coarse drought-resistant annual grass grown for grain, hay
          and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and
          hay in United States [syn: foxtail millet, Hungarian
          grass, Setaria italica]