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Millet

The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica.

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Cereal 76% connected

Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.

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Grain 76% connected

See Groan.

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Sorghum 76% connected

A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species, Sorghum Halepense, the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass (see Johnson grass), and S. vulgare, the…

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the branch of science dealing with physical and biological aspects of the oceans

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(ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains

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a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc.

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of or relating to nutrition; "a trophic level on the food chain"

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the science of the measurement and description and mapping of the surface waters of the earth with special reference to navigation

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Agrostis noun · 78% connection

A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable…

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Alectryomancy noun · 78% connection

Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in…

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Aleurone noun · 78% connection

granular protein in outermost layer of endosperm of many seeds or cereal grains

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Appellative noun · 78% connection

A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…

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Avena noun · 78% connection

A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses.

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Basil noun · 78% connection

The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush…

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Bear noun · 78% connection

An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea…

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Bran noun · 78% connection

food prepared from the husks of cereal grains

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Caryopsis noun · 78% connection

dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn

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Chaff noun · 78% connection

The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.

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Claviceps purpurea noun · 78% connection

a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant;…

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