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.