millet

noun

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

French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)

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

Roots

miliummill- · Latin · millet et-et · French · diminutive

Synonyms for millet

frumentyn kashan porridgen farinan

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