millet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪlɪt/
ipa: /ˈmɪlət/
rhymes: -ɪlɪt
Forms: form: millets
Etymology: From late Middle English, borrowed from Middle French millet; from Latin milium, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”), see also Ancient Greek μελίνη (melínē, “millet”) and Lithuanian málnos (“millet”). Not related to مِلَّة (milla).
Senses: examples: text: […] Tobias said, ‘Don't bother. Elena's allergic to all known food groups. The only thing she eats here is seasoned millet and rainwater they bring down from Vermont in a zinc can.’
ref: 1991, Douglas Coupland, “Adventure without risk is Disneyland”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 155:
glosses: Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
glosses: Common millet, in particular of species Panicum miliaceum.
Hyponyms: sense: food grains
alt: syn. Brachiaria deflexa; Guinea millet
word: Urochloa deflexa
sense: food grains
alt: syn. Brachiaria ramosa; brown-top millet
word: Urochloa ramosa
sense: food grains
english: Job's tears, adlay millet
translation: Job's tears, adlay millet
word: Coix lacryma-jobi
sense: food grains
word: Digitaria exilis
sense: food grains
word: Echinochloa
sense: food grains
word: Eleusine coracana
sense: food grains
word: Eragrostis tef
sense: food grains
word: Panicum miliaceum
sense: food grains
alt: syn. Panicum ramosum
word: Urochloa ramosa
sense: food grains
word: Panicum sumatrense
sense: food grains
word: Paspalum scrobiculatum
sense: food grains
alt: syn. Pennisetum glaucum
word: Cenchrus americanus
sense: food grains
word: Setaria italica
sense: food grains
word: Sorghum
Derived terms: taxonomic: Setaria viridis
word: wild foxtail millet
taxonomic: Coix lacryma-jobi
word: adlay millet
word: African millet
taxonomic: Panicum decompositum
word: Australian millet
taxonomic: Echinochloa spp.
word: barnyard millet
taxonomic: Pennisetum glaucum
word: black millet
taxonomic: Panicum miliaceum
word: broomcorn millet
taxonomic: Panicum miliaceum
word: broomtail millet
english: syn. Brachiaria spp.
translation: syn. Brachiaria spp.
taxonomic: Urochloa spp.
word: browntop millet
taxonomic: Pennisetum glaucum
word: bulrush millet
taxonomic: Echinochloa stagnina
word: burgu millet
taxonomic: Setaria faberi
word: Chinese millet
english: usually Panicum miliaceum
translation: usually Panicum miliaceum
word: common millet
taxonomic: Eleusine coracana
word: coracan millet
taxonomic: Eleusine coracana
word: finger millet
taxonomic: Digitaria exilis
word: fonio millet
taxonomic: Setaria italica
word: foxtail millet
taxonomic: Setaria italica
word: German millet
taxonomic: Lithospermum arvense
word: gray millet
taxonomic: Sorghum spp.
word: great millet
taxonomic: Urochloa deflexa
word: Guinea millet
taxonomic: Panicum miliaceum
word: hog millet
taxonomic: Echinochloa frumentacea
word: Indian barnyard millet
taxonomic: Sorghum bicolor
word: Indian millet
word: Italian millet
taxonomic: Echinochloa esculenta
word: Japanese barnyard millet
taxonomic: Echinochloa frumentacea
word: Japanese millet
taxonomic: Paspalum scrobiculatum
word: kodo millet
taxonomic: Panicum sumatrense
word: little millet
taxonomic: Chaetodon miliaris
word: millet butterflyfish
word: milletmeal
taxonomic: Pelopidas spp.
word: millet skipper
word: milletgrass
taxonomic: Milium spp.
word: millet grass
taxonomic: Panicum decompositum
word: native millet
taxonomic: Cenchrus americanus
alt: syn. Pennisetum glaucum
word: pearl millet
taxonomic: Digitaria sanguinalis
word: Polish millet
taxonomic: Panicum miliaceum
word: proso millet
taxonomic: Panicum miliaceum
word: red millet
taxonomic: Echinochloa frumentacea
word: sawa millet
word: shama millet Echinochloa colona)
word: water millet
taxonomic: Panicum miliaceum
word: white millet
word: wood millet