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PRONUNCIATION OF PEARL MILLET

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PEARL MILLET

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Pearl millet is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PEARL MILLET MEAN IN ENGLISH?

pearl millet

Pearl millet

Pearl millet is the most widely grown type of millet. It has been grown in Africa and the Indian subcontinent since prehistoric times. The center of diversity, and suggested area of domestication, for the crop is in the Sahel zone of West Africa. Recent archaeobotanical research has confirmed the presence of domesticated pearl millet on the Sahel zone of northern Mali between 2500 and 2000 BC. Cultivation subsequently spread and moved overseas to India. The earliest archaeological records in India date to around 2000 BC, and it spread rapidly through India reaching South India by 1500 BC, based on evidence from the site of Hallur. Cultivation also spread throughout eastern and southern Africa. Records exist for cultivation of pearl millet in the United States in the 1850s, and the crop was introduced into Brazil in the 1960s. Pearl millet is well adapted to growing areas characterized by drought, low soil fertility, and high temperature. It performs well in soils with high salinity or low pH. Because of its tolerance to difficult growing conditions, it can be grown in areas where other cereal crops, such as maize or wheat, would not survive.

Definition of pearl millet in the English dictionary

The definition of pearl millet in the dictionary is a tall grass, Pennisetum glaucum, cultivated in Africa, E Asia, and the southern US as animal fodder and for its pearly white seeds, which are used as grain.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PEARL MILLET

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pearl ash
pearl barley
pearl button
pearl diver
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Pearl Harbor
pearl necklace
pearl oyster
Pearl River
pearl-grey
pearl-handled
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pearlier
pearlies
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pearliness

WORDS THAT END LIKE PEARL MILLET

ballet
billet
bullet
callet
chicken fillet
fillet
gillet
Indian millet
jillet
mallet
millet
pallet
pellet
quillet
Rambouillet
rillet
Robbe-Grillet
skillet
wallet
willet

Synonyms and antonyms of pearl millet in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «pearl millet» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PEARL MILLET

Find out the translation of pearl millet to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pearl millet from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pearl millet» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

珍珠粟
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mijo perla
570 millions of speakers

English

pearl millet
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बाजरा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الدخن
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

просо
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

milheto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মুক্তা বাজরা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

millet perlé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mutiara mutiara
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Perlhirse
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

トウジンビエ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

진주 기장
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pearl millet
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kê ngọc trai
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முத்து தினை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मोती बाजरी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Inci darı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

miglio perlato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

proso perłowe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

просо
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mei perla
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μαργαριτάρι κεχρί
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pêrel manna
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pärla hirs
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

perle hirse
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pearl millet

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PEARL MILLET»

Discover the use of pearl millet in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pearl millet and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Pearl millet and sorghum improvement in India
Public research on pearl millet and sorghum grew more rapidly than for other hybrids after the establishment of ICRISAT in 1972. Public research also provided the basis for successful private research and development. The first private pearl ...
Carl E. Pray, 2009
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Advances in Downy Mildew Research
Rathi A.S., Panwar M.S. (1997) Downy mildew reaction of pearl millet varieties and hybrids. International Sorghum and Pearl millet Newsletter 38:128-130. Safeeulla K.M. (1976) Biology and control of the downy mildews of pearl millet, ...
Peter Spencer-Phillips, Michael J. Jeger, 2004
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Handbook of Cereal Science and Technology, Second Edition, ...
Reichert and Youngs [163] monitored changes in protein, ash, and oil in pearl millet decorticated by traditional village procedures, mechanical dehullers, and attrition mills. Grains were decorticated to remove from 0 to 45% of the total kernel ...
Karel Kulp, 2000
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Farmers' Bulletin
Bacterial Spot Bacterial spot n attacks the leaves of sorghum, broomcorn, Sudan grass, Johnson grass, pearl millet, foxtail millet, and corn. On sorghum the spots appear first on the lower leaves, and infection gradually spreads to the upper ...
‎1960
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Allelopathy in Rice
Crop Trianthema portulacastrum Weed population (no. m-2) Broadleaf Grassy (% inhibition versus fallow control) Total Sorghum Pearl millet Maize Clusterbean Cowpea 55.3 82.9 76.6 78.3 56.3 59.8 85.3 76.9 64.9 63.2 87.3 91.8 80.9 65.5 ...
M. Olofsdotter, 1998
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Cereals and pulses
of water, N and P. Ecology In West Africa, from the oases of the Sahara desert ( under irrigation) to the northern Sahel (characterized by 250 mm annual rainfall), pearl millet cultivars are grown that are photoperiod insensitive and mature in ...
‎2006
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Crop Variety Improvement and Its Effect on Productivity: The ...
Dave, H.R. (1987) Pearl millet hybrids. In: Proceedings of the International Pearl Millet Workshop, 7-11 April 1986. ICRISAT, India. Patancheru, India, pp. 121-126. Deb, U.K., Bantilan, M.C.S. and Rai, K.N. (2000) Impacts of improved pearl ...
Robert E. Evenson, Douglas Gollin, 2003
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Cereals and Millets
2002, who independently estimated the genome size of pearl millet to be 4.0 pg/ 2C using DAPI-stained leaf nuclei and rice as a reference species. Rice and pearl millet have similar GC contents (∼44%) (Martel et al. 1997; Tyagi et al. 2004).
Chittaranjan Kole, 2006
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The Encyclopedia of Seeds: Science, Technology and Uses
There is very limited international trade in pearl millet. Senegal exports some seeds to Senegalese living in the USA. 2. Origins Pearl millet is thought to have originated about 5000 years ago in tropical West Africa. Domestication of the crop is ...
J. Derek Bewley, Michael Black, Peter Halmer, 2006
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Physiology and Biotechnology Integration for Plant Breeding
Pearl millet mapping populations at ICRISAT. In: Witcombe JR, Duncan RR, eds. Use of Molecular Markers in Sorghum and Pearl Millet Breeding for Developing Countries. London: Overseas Development Admin-istration, 1994:69–75.
Henry T. Nguyen, Abraham Blum, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PEARL MILLET»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pearl millet is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cover crops are alternative for acres unplanted due to rain
Farmers who plant cover crops in July can choose warm-season annual covers such as sorghum-Sudan grass, cowpeas, pearl millet or sunn ... «Marshfield Mail, Jul 15»
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Farmers urged to cover their bare acres
Sunflowers, sunnhemp, pearl millet, Austrian winter peas, oats, cowpeas, sorghum-sudangrass and Ethiopian cabbage also have been tried as ... «Muncie Star Press, Jul 15»
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Biofortifying crops for better nutrition helps improve health of poorest
To date, biofortified crops, including vitamin A orange sweet potato, iron bean, vitamin A cassava, vitamin A maize, iron pearl millet, zinc rice ... «Genetic Literacy Project, Jul 15»
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The virtues of crabgrass
Other choices would be to plant a summer annual species such as hybrid sudan, pearl millet or teff grass. However, this article will focus on ... «Henderson Daily Dispatch, Jul 15»
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Methi Thepla Recipe
In a mixing bowl, take 1 cup whole wheat flour, ¼ cup besan, ¼ cup pearl millet flour, besan and ¼ cup Sorghum flour. Add all the spices and ... «HungryForever, Jul 15»
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Forage options for a wet year
If you can plant fairly soon, choose a warm-season grass such as sorghum-sudangrass, sudangrass, pearl millet, foxtail millet or tef. If you can't ... «Lebanon Reporter, Jul 15»
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'Plant short-duration crops in rain-scant areas'
In the rain-deficit regions, the agriculture ministry has suggested farmers to grow contingent crops such as pearl millet, cowpea, green gram ... «Financial Express, Jul 15»
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Passion is The Key Ingredient
Ragi - “pearl millet” which has a greater nutritious value. It can be used for dosa, idlis, pulao with vegetables, breads, pudding etc. Recipe. «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
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Calories versus nutrients
... options like ragi roti, bajra (pearl millet) and brown rice, are high in nutrients and low in calories—and, hence, an ideal healthy food choice. «Livemint, Jul 15»
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Gardening: Might be good time to give garden a rest, get rid of pests
Examples include cowpea (blackeye, crowder, or southern pea), velvetbean, soybean, hairy indigo, sorghum/sudan, pearl millet, French ... «Florida Times-Union, Jul 15»

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