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Noun: millet  mi-lit
  1. Any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
    "Millet is a drought-resistant crop popular in many African countries"
     
  2. Small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica
    "We prepared a hearty millet porridge for breakfast"
Noun: Millet  mi'ley
  1. French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)
    - Jean François Millet

Derived forms: millets

Type of: cereal, cereal grass, food grain, grain, painter

Part of: family Graminaceae, family Gramineae, family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, grass family, Poaceae

Encyclopedia: Millet, Nevada