English > millet: 3 senses > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine. |
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| Member of | Gramineae, family Gramineae, Graminaceae, family Graminaceae, Poaceae, family Poaceae, grass family | The grasses |
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| Narrower | Japanese millet, billion-dollar grass, Japanese barnyard millet, sanwa millet, Echinochloa frumentacea | coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage |
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| barnyard grass, barn grass, barn millet, Echinochloa crusgalli | A coarse annual panic grass |
| finger millet, ragi, ragee, African millet, coracan, corakan, kurakkan, Eleusine coracana | East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient |
| panic grass | Any grass of the genus Panicum |
| sorghum | economically important Old World tropical cereal grass |
| yardgrass, yard grass, wire grass, goose grass, Eleusine indica | coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers |
| Broader | cereal, cereal grass | grass whose starchy grains are used as food |
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| Spanish | mijo |
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| Catalan | mill |
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