MILLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Millet mean? 

• MILLET (noun)
  The noun MILLET has 3 senses:

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)

3. small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica

  Familiarity information: MILLET used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILLET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("millet" is a kind of...):

cereal; cereal grass (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "millet"):

barn grass; barn millet; barnyard grass; Echinochloa crusgalli (a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing)

billion-dollar grass; Echinochloa frumentacea; Japanese barnyard millet; Japanese millet; sanwa millet (coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States)

Eleusine indica; goose grass; wire grass; yard grass; yardgrass (coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere)

African millet; coracan; corakan; Eleusine coracana; finger millet; kurakkan; ragee; ragi (East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient)

panic grass (any grass of the genus Panicum; grown for grain and fodder)

sorghum (economically important Old World tropical cereal grass)

Holonyms ("millet" is a member of...):

family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)

Sense 2

Meaning:

French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Jean Francois Millet; Millet

Instance hypernyms:

painter (an artist who paints)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("millet" is a kind of...):

cereal; food grain; grain (foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses)

 Context examples 

India grows a variety of coarse grains — including sorghum, pearl millet, maize, barley, and finger millet — as well as many ‘small millets’ such as kodo millet, little millet, foxtail millet, proso millet, and barnyard millet.

(Course grains better than rice for health, environment, SciDev.Net)