Difference between Corn and Millet

What is the difference between Corn and Millet?

Corn as a noun is a grain or seed. while Millet as a noun is any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food.

Corn

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To granulate - form a substance into grains. To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. Corned beef. To provide with corn (typically maize) for feed. e.g. Corn the horses.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A grain or seed. The grain obtained from a plant, especially of cereal crops. A cereal plant grown for its grain. Locally, this may refer the leading crop of a region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, wheat, barley etc. in England and Wales. Maize. Sweetcorn. A callus on the foot. Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion (Adjective: corny).

Millet

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food.A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.

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