millet

English Thesaurus

1. small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica (noun.food)

hypernym	:	cereal, food grain, grain,
definition	:	foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses (noun.food)

2. French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875) (noun.person)

instance hypernym	:	painter,
definition	:	an artist who paints (noun.person)

3. any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	cereal, cereal grass,
definition	:	grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	barn grass, barn millet, barnyard grass, echinochloa crusgalli,
definition	:	a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	billion-dollar grass, echinochloa frumentacea, japanese barnyard millet, japanese millet, sanwa millet,
definition	:	coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	eleusine indica, goose grass, wire grass, yard grass, yardgrass,
definition	:	coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	african millet, coracan, corakan, eleusine coracana, finger millet, kurakkan, ragee, ragi,
definition	:	East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	panic grass,
definition	:	any grass of the genus Panicum; grown for grain and fodder (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	sorghum,
definition	:	economically important Old World tropical cereal grass (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family graminaceae, family gramineae, family poaceae, graminaceae, gramineae, grass family, poaceae,
definition	:	the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane (noun.plant)