millet
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Millet has been used as a cereal since ancient times. It is an important cereal in the tropics and warm temperate regions because it tolerates drought, growing well even in poor soil.
Any of several grasses of which the grains are used as a cereal food and the stems as animal fodder. Species include Panicum miliaceum, extensively cultivated in the warmer parts of Europe, and Sorghum bicolor, also known as durra. (Family Gramineae.)
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