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millet

mil.let \'mil-*t\ n [ME milet, fr. MF, dim. of mil, fr. L milium; akin to 
   Gk m]eline- millet 1: any of various small-seeded annual cereal and forage 
   grasses :  1a: a grass (Panicum miliaceum) cultivated for its grain which 
   is use d for food 1b: any of several grasses related to common millet  2: 
   the seed of a millet