indian millet

Questions about indian millet

What does indian millet mean?

indian millet means "sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for indian millet?

Close synonyms include durra, doura, dourah, Egyptian corn, Guinea corn. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is indian millet a common word?

indian millet is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.