MILLET

Millet

The millets are a group of highly variable small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for both human food and fodder. They do not form a taxonomic group, but rather a functional or agronomic one. Millets are important crops in the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa, with 97% of millet production in developing countries. The crop is favored due to its productivity and short growing season under dry, high temperature conditions.

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millet

Noun

  1. Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.


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