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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.
Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English milet < Middle French, equivalent to mil (< Latin milium millet) + -et -et
1375–1425; late Middle English milet < Middle French, equivalent to mil (< Latin milium millet) + -et -et
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Millets
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Word Origin & History
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."
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