millet

Everyday

1. A kind of grass grown for its small round seeds, which are eaten as grain by people and animals. tree →
2. The seeds of this plant, used for porridge, flatbread and bird food. tree →

In the lessons

In geography and food lessons, millet is an important food crop in dry parts of Africa and Asia because it grows in poor soil with little rain. In everyday life many people know it as bird seed. Phrases: millet porridge, bird seed with millet.

Examples

• We fed the budgie some millet. tree →
• Millet grows well where there is little rain. tree →
• In some countries people eat millet porridge for breakfast. tree →
• Millet seeds are small and round. tree →
• The farmers harvested the millet by hand. tree →
• Bird seed often contains millet. tree →
• Millet flour can be made into flatbread. tree →
• Make some gruel of red millet, and give to it.’ tree →

Note

Uncountable: some millet, not «a millet». Do not confuse with «mullet» (a fish, or a hairstyle). Related grains: wheat, rice, sorghum.

In Jewish tradition

Millet is one of the grains Ezekiel is told to mix into bread, a poor and mixed bread eaten in time of siege.

Interpretation. Ezekiel's coarse bread is read as a sign of the hunger and hardship coming to Jerusalem.

Note

Uncountable: some millet, not «a millet». Do not confuse with «mullet» (a fish, or a hairstyle). Related grains: wheat, rice, sorghum.