Millet
WordNet
noun
(1) Small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica
(2) French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)
(3) Any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
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English
Noun
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Scientific names
- Brachiaria deflexa
- Brachiaria ramosa
- Coix lacrima-jobi
- Digitaria exilis
- Echinochloa
- Eleusine coracana
- Eragrostis tef
- Panicum miliaceum
- Panicum ramosum
- Panicum sumatrense
- Paspalum scrobiculatum
- Pennisetum glaucum
- Setaria italica
- Urochloa deflexa
- Urochloa ramosa
- Sorghum
Etymology 2
From millet, from (milla).
Noun
- A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
- 2007, a common Serbian Orthodox Church [was] the one traditional institution permitted to exist under the Ottoman millet system which sought to rule subject peoples indirectly through their own religious hierarchies. — Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain (Hurst & Co. 2007, p. 14)