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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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