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How to pronounce millet in English?

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Synonyms jean francois millet
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Type of cereal, cereal grass
Has types barn millet, barnyard grass, billion-dollar grass, african millet, barn grass, japanese barnyard millet, japanese millet, kurakkan, panic grass, ragee, ragi, sanwa millet, sorghum, wire grass, yard grass, yardgrass, coracan, corakan, echinochloa crusgalli, echinochloa frumentacea, eleusine coracana, eleusine indica, finger millet, goose grass
Type Words
Type of food grain, grain, cereal

Examples of millet

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They came for handouts of rice and a thick millet porridge from a local charity.
From the thestate.com
Approximately 22 acres planted with millet, top-seeded wheat and Egyptian wheat.
From the newsobserver.com
According to Chinese records they grew Himalayan rye, barley, millet, and wheat.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Boiled millet is offered and goats and chickens are sacrificed on a Binou altar.
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Under the millet system, they had their own religious and judicial institutions.
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He isn't guaranteeing his customers a millet beer until he can see how it tastes.
From the denverpost.com
I have noticed tiny millet-size black bits that float around in the bath water.
From the telegraph.co.uk
When the tourists go home, so does he, to help his family farm its millet crop.
From the economist.com
A limited judicial autonomy was granted according to the Ottoman millet system.
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  • Any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
  • French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)
  • The millets are a group of small-seeded species of cereal crops or grains, widely grown around the world for food and fodder. They do not form a taxonomic group, but rather a functional or agronomic one. ...
  • Millet is a French based company that specializes in outdoor equipment, such as backpacks and sleeping bags. They also offer a wide variety of other equipment, earning comparisons to United States based companies such as Timberland and Columbia Sportswear.
  • Millet is a term for the confessional communities in the Ottoman Empire. It refers to the separate legal courts pertaining to "personal law" under which communities (Muslim Sharia, Christian Canon law and Jewish Halakha law abiding) were allowed to rule themselves under their own system. ...
  • (Millets) Blacks Leisure Group plc of Northampton, UK owns British outdoor retailers Blacks, Millets and Free Spirit.
  • Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food
  • Whole grain millet is a small-seeded cereal grain widely grown around the world for food and animal feed. Mild-flavored millet is nutritious and gluten-free. It is often added to multigrain bread doughs to provide a whole grain component and a pleasant crunch.
  • To see a miller in your dreams, signifies your surroundings will grow more hopeful. For a woman to dream of a miller failing in an attempt to start his mill, foretells she will be disappointed in her lover's wealth, as she will think him in comfortable circumstances.