Millet

millet
    n 1: any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage
         grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria,
         Sorghum, and Eleusine
    2: French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875) [syn: {Millet},
       {Jean Francois Millet}]
    3: small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially
       Setaria italica
    

millet \mil"let\ (m[i^]l"l[e^]t), n. [F., dim. of mil, L.
   milium; akin to Gr. meli`nh, 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}.

   Note:

   {Arabian millet} is {Sorghum Halepense}.

   {Egyptian millet} 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 tall grass growing in
      woods.
      [1913 Webster]
    

Millet
(Heb. dohan; only in Ezek. 4:9), a small grain, the produce of
the Panicum miliaceum of botanists. It is universally cultivated
in the East as one of the smaller corn-grasses. This seed is the
cenchros of the Greeks. It is called in India warree, and by the
Arabs dukhan, and is extensively used for food, being often
mixed with other grain. In this country it is only used for
feeding birds.
    

20 Moby Thesaurus words for "millet":
      breakfast food, cereal, cornflakes, dry cereal, farina, frumenty,
      grits, gruel, hasty pudding, hominy grits, hot cereal, kasha,
      loblolly, mush, oatmeal, porridge, puffed rice, puffed wheat,
      rolled oats, wheatflakes