| broomcorn millet | (n) extensively cultivated in Europe and Asia for its grain and in United States sometimes for forage, Syn. hog millet, Panicum miliaceum |
| finger millet | (n) East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient, Syn. corakan, ragee, African millet, coracan, ragi, kurakkan, Eleusine coracana |
| foxtail millet | (n) coarse drought-resistant annual grass grown for grain, hay, and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and hay in United States, Syn. Setaria italica, Hungarian grass, Italian millet |
| genus millettia | (n) genus of trees and shrubs of the Old World tropics |
| german millet | (n) millet having yellow grains in large drooping spikes, Syn. golden wonder millet, Setaria italica stramineofructa |
| great millet | (n) important for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves, Syn. kaffir corn, kafir corn, Sorghum bicolor, kaffir |
| japanese millet | (n) coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States, Syn. billion-dollar grass, Japanese barnyard millet, Echinochloa frumentacea, sanwa millet |
| millet | (n) any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine |
| millet | (n) French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875), Syn. Jean Francois Millet |
| millet | (n) small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica |
| millettia | (n) any of several tropical trees or shrubs yielding showy streaked dark reddish or chocolate-colored wood |
| pearl millet | (n) tall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage; sometimes used in making beer, Syn. Pennisetum Americanum, bulrush millet, Pennisetum glaucum, cattail millet |
| siberian millet | (n) millet having orange to reddish grains in long bristly spikes, Syn. Setaria italica rubrofructa |
| barnyard grass | (n) a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing, Syn. Echinochloa crusgalli, barn grass, barn millet |
| durra | (n) sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa, Syn. Indian millet, dourah, Guinea corn, doura, Egyptian corn |
| goose grass | (n) annual weedy grass used for hay, Syn. Texas millet, Panicum Texanum |
| johnson grass | (n) tall perennial grass that spreads by creeping rhizomes and is grown for fodder; naturalized in southern United States where it is a serious pest on cultivated land, Syn. evergreen millet, Sorghum halepense, Aleppo grass, means grass |
| mountain rice | (n) valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico, Syn. Indian millet, silk grass, silkgrass, Oryzopsis hymenoides |
| Fermillet | n. [ OF., dim. of fermeil, fermail, clasp, prob. fr. OF. & F. fermer to make fast, fr. ferme fast. See Firm. ] A buckle or clasp. [ Obs. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| millet | n. [ F., dim. of mil, L. milium; akin to Gr. meli`nh, AS. mil. ] (Bot.) 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. ☞
Arabian millet is Sorghum Halepense. --
Egyptian millet or
East Indian millet is Penicillaria spicata. --
Indian millet is Sorghum vulgare. (See under Indian.) --
Italian millet is Setaria Italica, a coarse, rank-growing annual grass, valuable for fodder when cut young, and bearing nutritive seeds; -- called also Hungarian grass. --
Texas millet is Panicum Texanum. --
Wild millet, or
Millet grass, is Milium effusum, a tall grass growing in woods. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| 小米 | [xiǎo mǐ, ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄇㄧˇ, 小 米] millet #8,973 [Add to Longdo] |
| 粟 | [sù, ㄙㄨˋ, 粟] grain; millet #20,010 [Add to Longdo] |
| 谷子 | [gǔ zi, ㄍㄨˇ ㄗ˙, 谷 子] millet #23,779 [Add to Longdo] |
| 秸 | [jiē, ㄐㄧㄝ, 秸] stalks of millet, corn #25,003 [Add to Longdo] |
| 蘼 | [mí, ㄇㄧˊ, 蘼] millet #44,464 [Add to Longdo] |
| 稷 | [jì, ㄐㄧˋ, 稷] (millet) #47,010 [Add to Longdo] |
| 粢 | [zī, ㄗ, 粢] common millet #52,107 [Add to Longdo] |
| 饼子 | [bǐng zi, ㄅㄧㄥˇ ㄗ˙, 饼 子 / 餅 子] maize or millet pancake #52,619 [Add to Longdo] |
| 黍 | [shǔ, ㄕㄨˇ, 黍] broomcorn millet; glutinous millet #52,883 [Add to Longdo] |
| 稗 | [bài, ㄅㄞˋ, 稗] barnyard millet (Echinochloa crus-galli); Panicum crus-galli #61,159 [Add to Longdo] |
| 秬 | [jù, ㄐㄩˋ, 秬] black millet #793,984 [Add to Longdo] |
| 秠 | [pī, ㄆㄧ, 秠] (millet) [Add to Longdo] |
| 穄 | [jì, ㄐㄧˋ, 穄] (millet) [Add to Longdo] |
| おこし種;粔籹種(oK) | [おこしだね, okoshidane] (n) (See 興し・おこし) roasted millet or rice cake used to make okoshi [Add to Longdo] |
| ミレットシードバタフライフィッシュ | [mirettoshi-dobatafuraifisshu] (n) millet butterflyfish (Chaetodon miliaris); lemon butterflyfish; milletseed butterflyfish [Add to Longdo] |
| 粟 | [あわ, awa] (n) foxtail millet (Setaria italica P. Beauvois); Italian millet (also Hungarian, German) [Add to Longdo] |
| 粟おこし | [あわおこし, awaokoshi] (n) millet brittle [Add to Longdo] |
| 粟飯 | [あわめし, awameshi] (n) steamed rice with millet; boiled rice with millet [Add to Longdo] |
| 粟餅 | [あわもち, awamochi] (n) millet dough cake; millet mochi [Add to Longdo] |
| 粟粒 | [あわつぶ;ぞくりゅう, awatsubu ; zokuryuu] (n) millet grain [Add to Longdo] |
| 黄金餅;黄金餠(oK) | [こがねもち, koganemochi] (n) (obsc) (See 粟餅) millet dough cake; millet mochi [Add to Longdo] |
| 吉備団子;黍団子 | [きびだんご, kibidango] (n) (1) (esp. 吉備団子) sweet dumpling made with mochi flour and (sometimes) millet flour (famous product of Okayama); (2) (esp. 黍団子) millet dumplings [Add to Longdo] |
| 黍;稷 | [きび;きみ;キビ, kibi ; kimi ; kibi] (n) (uk) (common) millet (Panicum miliaceium); proso millet [Add to Longdo] |
| 興し;興;粔籹(oK) | [おこし, okoshi] (n) (uk) millet or rice cake, roasted and hardened with starch syrup and sugar (sometimes including peanuts, etc.) [Add to Longdo] |
| 五穀 | [ごこく, gokoku] (n) the 5 grains (wheat, rice, beans, millet (awa and kibi)) [Add to Longdo] |
| 高黍 | [たかきび;タカキビ, takakibi ; takakibi] (n) (uk) sorghum (Sorghum bicolor); Indian millet [Add to Longdo] |
| 雑穀 | [ざっこく, zakkoku] (n) (1) assorted grains; cereals; (2) (See 黍) millet [Add to Longdo] |
| 四国稗 | [しこくびえ;シコクビエ, shikokubie ; shikokubie] (n) (uk) finger millet (Eleusine coracana) [Add to Longdo] |
| 紹興酒 | [しょうこうしゅ;シャオシンチュウ;シャオシンチュー, shoukoushu ; shaoshinchuu ; shaoshinchu-] (n) shaoxingjiu (Chinese alcohol made from rice or glutinous millet) (chi [Add to Longdo] |
| 唐黍 | [とうきび, toukibi] (n) Indian millet [Add to Longdo] |
| 唐人稗 | [とうじんびえ;トウジンビエ, toujinbie ; toujinbie] (n) (uk) pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) [Add to Longdo] |
| 稗 | [ひえ, hie] (n) barnyard millet (Echinochloa utilis); Japanese millet; sanwa millet [Add to Longdo] |
| 落ち穂拾い | [おちぼひろい, ochibohiroi] (n) act of picking up crop left after harvesting; name of painting by Millet [Add to Longdo] |
| 粳粟 | [うるあわ, uruawa] (n) (See 糯粟) non-glutinous millet [Add to Longdo] |
| 糯粟 | [もちあわ, mochiawa] (n) glutinous millet (for making mochi and certain types of alcohol) [Add to Longdo] |
| 糯黍;餅黍 | [もちきび;モチキビ, mochikibi ; mochikibi] (n) (uk) glutinous millet; sticky millet [Add to Longdo] |
| 蜀黍 | [もろこし;モロコシ, morokoshi ; morokoshi] (n) (uk) sorghum (Sorghum bicolor); Indian millet [Add to Longdo] |
