Mil"let (?), n. [F., dim. of
mil, L. milium; akin
to Gr. &?;, 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.
&fist; Arabian millet is Sorghum Halepense. -- Egyptian 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 tail grass growing in woods.
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