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Noun millet has 3 senses
- millet - any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
--1 is a kind of cereal, cereal grass; Gramineae, family Gramineae, Graminaceae, family Graminaceae, Poaceae, family Poaceae, grass family
--1 has particulars: | barnyard grass, barn grass, barn millet, Echinochloa crusgalli; Japanese millet, billion-dollar grass, Japanese barnyard millet, sanwa millet, Echinochloa frumentacea; yardgrass, yard grass, wire grass, goose grass, Eleusine indica; finger millet, ragi, ragee, African millet, coracan, corakan, kurakkan, Eleusine coracana; panic grass; sorghum |
- Millet, Jean Francois Millet - French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)
--2 is a kind of painter
- millet - small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica
--3 is a kind of grain, food grain, cereal
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