单词 | millet |
释义 | millet (once / 13889 pages) n WORD FAMILY millet: millets USAGE EXAMPLESThose, 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 Hypo|Hyper 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 milletcoarse 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, yardgrasscoarse 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, ragiEast Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient panic grassany grass of the genus Panicum; grown for grain and fodder sorghumeconomically important Old World tropical cereal grass Panicum capillare, old witch grass, old witchgrass, tumble grass, witch grass, witchgrassNorth American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land Panicum virgatum, switch grassgrass of western America used for hay Panicum miliaceum, broomcorn millet, hog milletextensively cultivated in Europe and Asia for its grain and in United States sometimes for forage Panicum Texanum, Texas millet, goose grassannual weedy grass used for hay Sorghum bicolor, great millet, kaffir, kaffir corn, kafir cornimportant for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves grain sorghumany of several sorghums cultivated primarily for grain sorgho, sorgo, sugar sorghum, sweet sorghumany of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup Aleppo grass, Johnson grass, Sorghum halepense, evergreen millet, means grasstall 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, broomcorntall 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 Hyper cereal, food grain, grain foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses Millet (once / 13938 pages) n WORD FAMILY Millet: Millets USAGE EXAMPLESA 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) Syn|Exp Jean Francois Millet painter an artist who paints |
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