millet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small round grain produced by several cereal grasses and eaten as food

   The cook served millet with roasted vegetables instead of rice.

2. 2
   noun

   any of several cereal grasses cultivated for their small edible seeds or as animal feed

   The farmer planted millet because the crop tolerates dry conditions.

From late Middle English millet, borrowed from Middle French millet, a diminutive related to Latin milium ("millet"). The name passed from the plant to its small edible grain.

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