millet Definition
mil·let (mil′it)
noun
- a cereal grass (Panicum miliaceum) whose small grain is used for food in Europe and Asia
- the grain
- any of several other similar grasses or their seed, as foxtail millet and pearl millet
Etymology: ME milet < MFr, dim. of mil < L milium, millet < IE *melēi-, var. of base *mel-, to grind > mill, Gr melinē, millet
Millet Definition
Mil·let (mi lā′; Fr mē ye′, -le′)
Millet, Jean François (z̸hän frän swȧ′) 1814-75; Fr. painter
millet Usage Examples
Converse of object
- grow: The population is self-sufficient and everyone is a farmer, growing millet, barley and a special kind of pink rice.
- cook: Breakfast: 50 % ground organic millet flakes or millet flakes ( or cooked whole millet ).
- include: Other food crops include millet, sorghum and maize.
- pound: In the afternoon she may well have spent several hours pounding millet for the family's meal that evening.
- grind: She would also like to have a flour mill in the village so village women can grind millet and wheat.
- improve: Another innovative step in the on-going battle to improve pearl millet has been in the area of molecular mapping.
Adjective modifier
- pearl: Another innovative step in the on-going battle to improve pearl millet has been in the area of molecular mapping.
- white: Red and white millet mixed are high producers of protein feeds for wild birds.
- small: Small millets are high in folic acid, minerals, iron and fiber, and have higher vitamin levels than rice.
Modifies a noun
- spray: Twice a week I put a millet spray in the show cage to attract the youngsters into the cage.
- seed: It looks like red millet seeds under the skin.
- hybrid: Such epidemics constitute the major risk to cultivation of well-adapted pearl millet hybrids that can be reduced by effective crop improvement research.
- system: The creation of the millet system has been attributed to Fatih Sultan Mehmet in the aftermath of the conquest of Constantinople.
- flake: Breakfast: 50 % ground organic millet flakes or millet flakes ( or cooked whole millet ).
- flour: Henry Crun: Add four pounds of millet flour and bring the mixture to - Minnie?
Noun used with modifier
- finger: Dealers weigh out teff, barley and finger millet which form the staple diet.
- foxtail: It also exists in related plants including tropical cereal-based crops such as foxtail millet and sorghum.
- wood: The wood contains several scarce and locally distributed grasses, sedges and rushes including hairy woodrush, pendulous sedge and wood millet.
- bullrush: Showing an African examining a plant in a field of Bullrush millet.
- spray: Spray millet is a favorite, and provides essential vitamins and protein.
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