Millet vs. Milo

Milletnoun

Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.

Milletnoun

(historical) A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.

Milletnoun

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.

Milletnoun

any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine

Milletnoun

French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)

Milletnoun

small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica

Milletnoun

a cereal grown in warm countries and regions with poor soils, bearing a large crop of small seeds which are chiefly used to make flour.

Millet

Millets () are a group of highly variable small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food. Millets are important crops in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa (especially in India, Mali, Nigeria, and Niger), with 97% of millet production in developing countries.

Milonoun

(US) sorghum

Milonoun

small drought-resistant sorghums having large yellow or whitish grains

Milonoun

sorghum of a drought-resistant variety which is an important cereal in the central US.