millet

Any of various annual grasses with small grains that are harvested for food, livestock feed, and birdseed, especially proso millet.

The grains of any of these plants.

A people; a nation.

The green foxtail, Chætochloa viridis.

Same as Indian millet .

A cereal grass, Panicum miliaceum, known from antiquity, and still cultivated in the East and in southern and central Europe.

One of several other grasses: generally with a prefixed descriptive. See below

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.

Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food.

A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.