"millet" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

is a type of: cereal, cereal grass - grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
subtypes:
- barn grass, barn millet, barnyard grass, echinochloa crusgalli - a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing
- billion-dollar grass, echinochloa frumentacea, japanese barnyard millet, japanese millet, 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, coracan, corakan, eleusine coracana, 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
belongs to: family graminaceae, family gramineae, family poaceae, graminaceae, gramineae, grass family, poaceae - the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane
is an instance of: painter - an artist who paints

same as: jean francois millet
is a type of: cereal, food grain, grain - foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses