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mil·let 
[mil-it] Pronunciation Key
[mil-it] Pronunciation Key –noun
| 1. | a cereal grass, Setaria italica, extensively cultivated in the East and in southern Europe for its small seed, or grain, used as food for humans and fowls, but in the U.S. grown chiefly for fodder. |
| 2. | any of various related or similar grasses cultivated as grain plants or forage plants. |
| 3. | the grain of any of these grasses. |
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Mil·let
[mi-ley; for 2 also Fr. mee-le] Pronunciation Key
[mi-ley; for 2 also Fr. mee-le] Pronunciation Key –noun
| 1. | Francis Davis, 1846–1912, U.S. painter, illustrator, and journalist. |
| 2. | Jean Fran·çois
[zhahn frahn-swa] Pronunciation Key, 1814–75, French painter. |
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| mil·let
(mĭl'ĭt) Pronunciation Key
n.
[Middle English milet, from Old French, diminutive of mil, millet, from Latin milium; see melə- in Indo-European roots.] |
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| Mil·let
(mĭ-lā', mē-) Pronunciation Key
French painter whose works, such as The Gleaners (1857) and Winter with Ravens (1862), portray peasant life and bucolic landscapes. He was a central figure of the Barbizon school. |
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millet
millet
cereal grain, c.1400, from M.Fr. millet, dim. of mil "millet," from L. milium "millet," cognate with Gk. meline, Lith. malnus (pl.) "millet."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| millet | |
noun | |
| 1. | any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine |
| 2. | French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875) |
| 3. | small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica |
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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. 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.
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Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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