Definition of Millit
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.
&fist; 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A type of grass or its grains used as food.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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