Millet

(noun.) small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica.

(noun.) French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875).

(noun.) any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine.

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• Grape juice mixed with millet ferments quickly and strongly, and the Romans learned to use this mixture for bread raising, kneading a very small amount of it through the dough. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Neolithic men cultivated and ate wheat, barley, and millet, but they knew nothing of oats or rye. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Nice cutting is her function: she divides With spiritual edge the millet-seed, And makes intangible savings. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Priscus mentions mead in the place of wine, millet for corn, and a drink either distilled[272] or brewed from barley. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Millet's recent celebrated painting represents a brutal, primitive type of a man leaning heavily on a hoe as ancient and woful in character as the man himself. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Feed the chicks four or five times a day, at first on hard-boiled eggs, chopped fine, giving them also a little milk, fine screenings, and millet seed. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Among these are kaffir corn, sorghum, alfalfa, clover, millet, cowpeas, soy-beans, sugar beets, oats and even weeds and thistles. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The millets are among the best paying dry-farming crops. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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