Millet
Millets (/ˈmɪlɪts/) are a group of highly variable small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food.
Millets are important crops in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa (especially in India, Mali, Nigeria, and Niger), with 97% of millet production in developing countries. The crop is favored due to its productivity and short growing season under dry, high-temperature conditions.
Millets are indigenous to many parts of the world. The most widely grown millet is pearl millet, which is an important crop in India and parts of Africa. Finger millet, proso millet, and foxtail millet are also important crop species.
Millets may have been consumed by humans for about 7,000 years and potentially had “a pivotal role in the rise of multi-crop agriculture and settled farming societies”.
Corn (noun)
The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales.
Corn (noun)
Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
Corn (noun)
A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
“He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.”
Corn (noun)
A small, hard particle.
Corn (noun)
A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
“clavus”
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Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
Corn (noun)
A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and re-freezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
“corn snow”
Corn (verb)
to granulate; to form a substance into grains
“to corn gunpowder”
Corn (verb)
to preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef
Corn (verb)
to provide with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed
“Corn the horses.”
Corn (verb)
to render intoxicated
“ale strong enough to corn one”
Millet (noun)
Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
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A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
Corn (noun)
the chief cereal crop of a district, especially (in England) wheat or (in Scotland) oats
“fields of corn”
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the grain of a cereal crop.
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another term for maize
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something banal or sentimental
“the film is pure corn”
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a small, painful area of thickened skin on the foot, especially on the toes, caused by pressure.
Millet (noun)
a cereal grown in warm countries and regions with poor soils, bearing a large crop of small seeds which are chiefly used to make flour.