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Definition of Millets
1. millet [n] - See also: millet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Millets
Literary usage of Millets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Productive Farm Crops by Edward Gerrard Montgomery (1916)
"CHAPTER XXXIX millets THE name millet is applied to a considerable variety of
plants, such as cultivated forms of fox-tail grasses, barnyard grass, ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"The millets are cultivated varieties of certain small-seeded cereal and forage
grasses, which, in a strict sense, belong to the genus Panicum, or to closely ..."
3. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"The sorghums, too, have frequently been called " giant millets. ... The principal
millets are the following: — Foxtail millet (Setaria italica), ..."
4. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"The sorghums, too, have frequently been called " giant millets. ... The principal
millets are the following : — Foxtail millet (Setaria ..."
5. Forage Crops for Soiling, Silage, Hay and Pasture by Edward Burnett Voorhees (1917)
"There are several distinct kinds of millets, belonging to different genera of
... The Hungarian and German millets belong to the group of foxtail grasses of ..."
6. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1911)
"Mention is made in Bulletin 101 of the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment
Station of the breeding work with foxtail millets carried on in cooperation with ..."
7. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"millets; PULSES; OIL-SEEDS. region of Mysore, the proportion under 'dry crops,'
chiefly in Mysore; ragi, rises to 77 per cent, of the cultivated area, ..."
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