millet

A noun referring to a type of small-seeded annual cereal grass, or the edible seeds themselves, commonly grown as a grain crop for food and forage.

• 🇷🇺Существительное, обозначающее вид мелкосеменной однолетней злаковой культуры или сами съедобные семена, обычно выращиваемые как зерновая культура для пищи и корма.

1. Cereal grain B1 formal

   A small-seeded annual grass cultivated as a cereal crop for human consumption and animal feed.

   • Millet is a staple food in many parts of Africa and Asia.
   • Farmers grow millet because it is drought-resistant.
   • The porridge was made from ground millet.

   🇷🇺Зерновая культура

2. Grass plant B2 formal

   Any of various small-grained annual grasses from genera such as Panicum, Setaria, or Eleusine, grown for their seeds.

   • The field was planted with foxtail millet.
   • Millet grasses are often used as forage for livestock.
   • Botanists classify several species under the name millet.

   🇷🇺Злаковое растение

• millets plural form
• millets' possessive plural form
• millet's possessive singular form