Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun millet
3 senses of millet
Sense 1
millet -- (any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine)
=> cereal, cereal grass -- (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)
Sense 2
Millet, Jean Francois Millet -- (French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875))
INSTANCE OF=> painter -- (an artist who paints)
Sense 3
millet -- (small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica)
=> grain, food grain, cereal -- (foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses)