fruit bat | | |
n. (animal) | 1. fruit bat, megabat | large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit. |
| ~ bat, chiropteran | nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate. |
| ~ megachiroptera, suborder megachiroptera | fruit bats. |
| ~ flying fox | large bat with a head that resembles the head of a fox. |
| ~ pteropus capestratus | a variety of fruit bat. |
| ~ pteropus hypomelanus | a variety of fruit bat. |
| ~ harpy bat, tube-nosed bat, tube-nosed fruit bat, harpy | any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes. |
| ~ cynopterus sphinx | a variety of fruit eating bat. |
millet | | |
n. (plant) | 1. millet | any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine. |
| ~ family graminaceae, family gramineae, family poaceae, graminaceae, gramineae, grass family, poaceae | the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane. |
| ~ barn grass, barn millet, barnyard grass, echinochloa crusgalli | a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing. |
| ~ billion-dollar grass, echinochloa frumentacea, japanese barnyard millet, japanese millet, sanwa millet | coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States. |
| ~ eleusine indica, yard grass, yardgrass, wire grass, goose grass | coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere. |
| ~ african millet, coracan, corakan, eleusine coracana, finger millet, kurakkan, ragee, ragi | East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient. |
| ~ panic grass | any grass of the genus Panicum; grown for grain and fodder. |
| ~ sorghum | economically important Old World tropical cereal grass. |
| ~ cereal, cereal grass | grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet. |
n. (person) | 2. jean francois millet, millet | French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875). |
| ~ painter | an artist who paints. |
n. (food) | 3. millet | small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica. |
| ~ food grain, cereal, grain | foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses. |
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