I. ˈmilə̇t, usu -ə̇d.+V noun
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Etymology: Middle English milet, from Middle French, from mil millet (from Latin milium ) + -et; akin to Greek melinē millet and probably to Old English melu meal — more at meal
1. : any of various small-seeded annual cereal and forage grasses that produce abundant foliage and fibrous root systems:
a. : a grass ( Panicum miliaceum ) extensively cultivated in Europe and Asia for its grain which is used both as an article of diet for man and as a food for birds and in the United States sometimes grown for hay
b. : any of several grasses of genera closely related to Panicum (as Echinochloa, Setaria, Pennisetum, Eleusine, and Sorghum )
2. : the seed or grain of any of these grasses
II. mə̇ˈlet noun
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Etymology: Turkish, nation, people, body of coreligionists, from Arabic millah religion
: a non-Muslim group or community in Turkey organized under a religious head of its own who also exercises civil functions of importance