\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}.



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.