Millet vs. Teff

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.

Teffnoun

A love grass, Eragrostis tef, with small seeds, grown as a cereal and for forage in Ethiopia and parts of Arabia.

Teffnoun

The fine grain of this plant.

Teffnoun

an African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flower of good quality) as well as for forage and hay

Teff

Eragrostis tef, also known as teff, Williams lovegrass or annual bunch grass, is an annual grass, a species of lovegrass native to the Horn of Africa, notably to modern-day Ethiopia. It is cultivated for its edible seeds, also known as teff.