millet
Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
Other meanings
common millet, in particular of species Panicum miliaceum.
A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one. 19
Word history
From Latin "milium".
Where this comes from
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