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millet vs African millet

African millet vs millet

millet and African millet both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
millet Yes No No No
African millet Yes No No No
As nouns, African millet is a hyponym of millet; that is, African millet is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than millet:
  • millet: any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
  • African millet: East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient
millet (noun) African millet (noun)
small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient
any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
Difference between millet and African millet

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