millet

1. Any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine (synset 112156415)
   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
2. French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875) (synset 111200347)
   is an instance of: painter - an artist who paints
   same as: jean francois millet
3. Small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica (synset 107818939)
   is a type of: cereal, food grain, grain - foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

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