millet
pronunciation
How to pronounce millet in British English:
UK [ˈmɪlɪt]
How to pronounce millet in American English:
US [ˈmɪlɪt]
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- Noun:
- any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
- small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica
Word Origin
- millet (n.)
- cereal grain, c. 1400, from Middle French millet, diminutive of mil "millet," from Latin milium "millet" (see mallet). Cognate with Greek meline, Lithuanian malnus (plural) "millet."
Example
- 1. Clinical observation found that eating millet helps to the prevention of aging .
- 2. Looking at food spending itself , although the very poor do focus on the cheapest grain - millet - they also spend on wheat , rice and even sugar .
- 3. Second , we reconstruct the price history of five food grains ( rice , millet , sorghum , wheat , and soybeans ) and determine the degree of price integration in the prefectural market .
- 4. Mckeith suggests adding parsley and fennel to the millet for an extra kick .
- 5. Chemical analysis of the starches revealed that both the noodles and cakes were made of common millet .