English dictionary

millet

/'m/I/l/I/t/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

noun

any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine

noun.plant

Source: WordNet 3.0
French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)

noun.person

Synonyms jean francois millet

Source: WordNet 3.0
small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica

noun.food

Source: WordNet 3.0
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 <i>Panicum miliaceum</i>, and <i>Setaria Italica</i>.

noun

Source: webster1913