The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Columbia Encyclopedia World Factbook American Heritage Coll. 2001. millet common name for several species of grasses cultivated mainly for cereals in the Eastern Hemisphere and for forage and hay in North America. The principal varieties are the foxtail, pearl, and barnyard millets and the proso millet, called also broomcorn millet and hog millet.
Much millet is grown in China, India, Manchuria, the USSR, and Africa.
B.C. Millets are classified in the division Magnoliophyta , class Liliopsida, order Cyperales, family Gramineae. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.