Millet

William Smith's Bible Dictionary

a kind of grain. A number os species are cultivated in the East. When green it is used as fodder, and for bread when ripe. (Ezekiel 4:9) It is probable that both the Sorghum vulgare and that Panicum miliaceum were used, and the Hebrew dochan may denote either of these plants.

Related Words

Millet
·noun The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Millet
(Heb. dohan; only in Ezek. 4:9), a small grain, the produce of the Panicum miliaceum of botanists. I...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
millet
n. The name is given to severalAustralian grasses. The Koda Millet of India, Paspalumscrobiculatum,...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
native millet
n. See millet. ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris