Definition of Millets. Meaning of Millets. Synonyms of Millets

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Definition of Millets

Millet
Millet Mil"let, n. [F., dim. of mil, L. milium; akin to Gr. ?, AS. mil.] (Bot.) 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.
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Note: Arabian millet is Sorghum Halepense. Egyptian or East Indian, millet is Penicillaria spicata. Indian millet is Sorghum vulgare. (See under Indian.) Italian millet is Setaria Italica, a coarse, rank-growing annual grass, valuable for fodder when cut young, and bearing nutritive seeds; -- called also Hungarian grass. Texas millet is Panicum Texanum. Wild millet, or Millet grass, is Milium effusum, a tail grass growing in woods.

Meaning of Millets from wikipedia

- and human food. Most species generally referred to as millets belong to the tribe Paniceae. Millets are important crops in the semiarid tropics of Asia...
- India, millets have been an integral part of the food system of the Karbis as well as the Jhum fields. Hanjangmilen, Karbi name of foxtail millets have...
- production of millets. World production of millets has been stable during the 1980s. According to FAO, 39.4 million hectares (97 million acres) of millet were...
- sorghum and millets". Journal of Cereal Science. 44 (3): 252–271. doi:10.1016/j.jcs.2006.06.009. Kalaisekar, A (2017). Insect pests of millets: systematics...
- to be incorrectly identified cleaned grains of hulled millets. The oldest record of finger millet comes from an archaeological site in Africa dating to...
- community Millets, UK retailer of leisure goods owned by Blacks Outdoor Retail Millet (manufacturer), French maker of sporting goods Millet (TV channel)...
- community, without an overarching structure for the millet as a whole. The notion of distinct millets corresponding to different religious communities within...
- and other millets. IIMR operates under the aegis of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). It conducts agricultural research on Millets breeding...
- and Columbia Sportswear. Millet is not related to Millets, a UK chain of shops selling outdoor clothing. "Outdoor: Why Millet Mountain Group is stepping...
- recognised 2023 as International Year of Millets or IYM2023 for awareness about health and nutritional benefits of millets. The Indian Government proposed to...