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millet Definition

mil·let (mil′it)

noun

    1. a cereal grass (Panicum miliaceum) whose small grain is used for food in Europe and Asia
    2. the grain
  2. 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.