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millet
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WORD FAMILY
millet: millets
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Those, and a few others — sorghum, millet and soy, for example — are the staple crops around the world.
Washington Post(Dec 15, 2016)
On shore, tent stalls offered mouth-watering fried fish and aboriginal millet wine beside the palm-fringed fishing harbour.
The Guardian(Nov 25, 2016)
Research has shown that sprouting boosts the antioxidant levels of brown rice, amaranth and millet, for example.
Time(Nov 18, 2016)
1n any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
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Echinochloa crusgalli, barn grass, barn millet, barnyard grass
a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing
Echinochloa frumentacea, Japanese barnyard millet, Japanese millet, billion-dollar grass, 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, Eleusine coracana, coracan, corakan, 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
Panicum capillare, old witch grass, old witchgrass, tumble grass, witch grass, witchgrass
North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land
Panicum virgatum, switch grass
grass of western America used for hay
Panicum miliaceum, broomcorn millet, hog millet
extensively cultivated in Europe and Asia for its grain and in United States sometimes for forage
Panicum Texanum, Texas millet, goose grass
annual weedy grass used for hay
Sorghum bicolor, great millet, kaffir, kaffir corn, kafir corn
important for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves
grain sorghum
any of several sorghums cultivated primarily for grain
sorgho, sorgo, sugar sorghum, sweet sorghum
any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup
Aleppo grass, Johnson grass, Sorghum halepense, evergreen millet, means grass
tall perennial grass that spreads by creeping rhizomes and is grown for fodder; naturalized in southern United States where it is a serious pest on cultivated land
Sorghum vulgare technicum, broomcorn
tall grasses grown for the elongated stiff-branched panicle used for brooms and brushes
cereal, cereal grass
grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
2n small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica
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cereal, food grain, grain
foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
Millet
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WORD FAMILY
Millet: Millets
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A woman in Alaska flees her politically ambitious husband, with her daughter in tow, in the prolific Millet’s latest novel.
New York Times(Oct 03, 2016)
Its outdoor division - which includes the Blacks and Millets chains - managed to narrow losses to £2.3m from £4.5m last year.
BBC(Sep 13, 2016)
The tiny outpost hits many a nostalgic note, celebrated in paintings by Mississippi artists Wyatt Waters, Mark Millet and Paul Fayard.
Washington Times(Aug 01, 2016)
n French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)
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Jean Francois Millet
painter
an artist who paints
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