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  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Millet  \Mil"let\,  n.  [F.,  dim.  of  mil,  L.  milium;  akin  to  Gr  ?, 
  AS  mil.]  (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}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
 
 
  Note: 
 
  {Arabian  millet}  is  {Sorghum  Halepense}. 
 
  {Egyptian  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  tail  grass  growing  in 
  woods. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  millet 
  n  1:  any  of  various  small-grained  annual  cereal  and  forage 
  grasses  of  the  genera  Panicum,  Echinochloa,  Setaria, 
  Sorghum,  and  Eleusine 
  2:  extensively  cultivated  in  Europe  and  Asia  for  its  grain  and 
  in  United  States  sometimes  for  forage  [syn:  {broomcorn 
  millet},  {hog  millet},  {Panicum  miliaceum}] 
  3:  small  seed  of  any  of  various  annual  cereal  grasses 
  especially  Setaria  italica 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  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. 
 




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