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millet

mil·let [ míllit ]


noun 
Definition:
 
1. grain: the pale shiny grain of a cereal plant. Use: flour, alcoholic drinks, birdseed, fodder.

2. cereal plant: a fast-growing cereal plant. Use: grain, fodder. Native to: warm regions.  Latin name Panicum miliaceum.

3. grass plant: a grass that is similar or related to millet, e.g. pearl millet. Use: grain.

[15th century. < Old French< Latin milium]
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