- a cereal grass, Setaria italica, cultivated for grain and animal fodder
- an East Indian annual grass, Panicum miliaceum, cultivated for grain and forage, having pale round shiny seeds
- the seed of this plant
- any of various similar or related grasses, such as pearl millet and Indian millet
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mil•let /ˈmɪlɪt/USA pronunciation
n. [uncountable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Plant Biologya grass grown as a food-grain crop.
- Plant Biologythe grain of such a grass.
mil•let
(mil′it),USA pronunciation n.
Mil•let (mi lā′; for 2 also Fr. mē le′),USA pronunciation n.Jean Fran•çois
(zhän frän swa′),USA pronunciation 1814–75, French painter.
- Plant Biologya cereal grass, Setaria italica, extensively cultivated in the East and in southern Europe for its small seed, or grain, used as food for humans and fowls, but in the U.S. grown chiefly for fodder.
- Plant Biologyany of various related or similar grasses cultivated as grain plants or forage plants.
- Plant Biologythe grain of any of these grasses.
- Latin milium millet) + -et -et
- Middle French, equivalent. to mil (
- late Middle English milet 1375–1425
Mil•let (mi lā′; for 2 also Fr. mē le′),USA pronunciation n.
- BiographicalFrancis Davis, 1846–1912, U.S. painter, illustrator, and journalist.
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millet /ˈmɪlɪt/ n
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Millet /French: milɛ/ n
- Jean François ( ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa ). 1814–75, French painter of the Barbizon school, noted for his studies of peasants at work
'millet' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
cereal
- mealie
- miliary
- panic grass
- African millet
- durra
- foxtail millet
- grain
- gromwell
- Indian millet
- kaoliang
- miliaria
- milium
- panic
- panicle
- pearl millet
- samshu
- spray millet