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MILLET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("millet" is a kind of...):
cereal; food grain; grain (foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses)
Sense 2
Meaning:
French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)
Synonyms:
Jean Francois Millet; Millet
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
painter (an artist who paints)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("millet" is a kind of...):
cereal; cereal grass (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "millet"):
barn grass; barn millet; barnyard grass; Echinochloa crusgalli (a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing)
billion-dollar grass; Echinochloa frumentacea; Japanese barnyard millet; Japanese millet; sanwa millet (coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States)
Eleusine indica; goose grass; wire grass; yard grass; yardgrass (coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere)
African millet; coracan; corakan; Eleusine coracana; finger millet; kurakkan; ragee; ragi (East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient)
panic grass (any grass of the genus Panicum; grown for grain and fodder)
sorghum (economically important Old World tropical cereal grass)
Holonyms ("millet" is a member of...):
family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)