(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) In patients with diabetes mellitus, the duration of wound treatment in use of the millet oil reduced by 16 days when compared to that in using the sea-buckthorn oil.
(2) Twenty-four wethers had ad libitum access to a total forage diet (pearl millet forage), water and trace mineralized salt.
(3) Monet, Courbet, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Millet, that boor Cézanne and the even more boorish Picasso and Marinetti (not to mention our own selves, the local boors)."
(4) The antibodies were tested against whole wheat gliadin and its alpha, beta, gamma, and omega subfractions, and the prolamins of rye, barley, oats, maize, millet, rice, and sorghum.
(5) F. napiforme and F. nygamai also may be important because of their association with the food grains millet and sorghum.
(6) Hays offered included two sorghum-sudan, four barley, four oat and two pearl millet.
(7) The Glasgow Boys went after this mood with a will and set up temporary homes among the red-tiled roofs of the rural east – Cockburnspath was by no means their only base – to prospect for scenes that would do justice to an imagination fired by their heroes Corot , Millet and Bastien-Lepage.
(8) Staple foodstuffs with a high buffer content (unmilled rice, unrefined wheat and a millet [ragi]) placed in the stomach after pyloric ligation are also protective, but those with a low buffer content (milled rice, tapioca, sorghum and maize) are not protective.
(9) The conventional wisdom is that trees compete with crops, but FMNR has increased millet harvests from 430kg to 750kg a hectare, according to World Vision, which supports 39,000 hectares (96,000 acres) of FMNR in Kaffrine.
(10) Stored and cooked samples of pearl millet (Pennesetum typhoides), which is regularly consumed as food by the Paharia tribe in the hilly regions of Santhal Pargana, Bihar State, India, that were harvested in January 1989 were analyzed for mold flora, natural occurrence of Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus, and incidence and levels of aflatoxin B1.
(11) A replicated 4 x 4 Latin square digestion trial was conducted to determine apparent nutrient digestibilities and N and energy balances for soft red winter wheat, Beagle 82 triticale, Florico triticale, and pearl millet using finishing pigs fitted with ileal T-cannulas.
(12) Another new nitrosamine, N-2-methylpropyl-N-methylacetonyl nitrosamine, was isolated in millet and wheat flour after similar treatment.
(13) It found they have lost much of their harvested crops of rice, maize, wheat and millet, and seeds for future planting, which are now buried under collapsed homes.
(14) Cross-reactivity between rice, wheat, corn, Japanese millet and Italian millet in Poaceae family were studied by absorption test, radioallergosorbent test (RAST), and RAST inhibition assay.
(15) Daily gains of steers were similar with both forages except in 1975 when those fed on pearl millet grew 19 per cent faster than those on Guinea grass.
(16) Accelerated natural lactic fermentation in mixtures of water and ground sorghum, millet and pigeon pea was obtained by gradual selection of lactic acid bacteria, through inoculum recycling.
(17) The author visited China in 1981 and 1984 and obtained data comparing the incidence of duodenal ulcer in the rice eating districts of the south with the incidence in the wheat, maize and millet eating areas of the north.
(18) Chemical nature and biological activity of miliacine that is contained in millet oil have been studied.
(19) Mixed culture fermentation of pearl millet flour with Saccharomyces diastaticus, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Lactobacillus brevis and Lactobacillus fermentum brought about an improvement in its biological utilisation in rats.
(20) Consumption of millet gruel was associated positively with EC, in a dose-response relationship.
Moha
Definition:
(n.) A kind of millet (Setaria Italica); German millet.
Example Sentences:
(1) And so the three of us drove, regretfully, away from Imlil – Caroline in the back and me in the front with Moha, who regaled us with stories and history and answers to the endless questions we fired at him as the mountains rolled by.
(2) Moha, a new recruit from Barcelona, has the potential to be a very exciting, young, pacy winger.
(3) He was even happier to confirm the signing of the winger Moha El Ouriachi from Barcelona after the 19-year-old turned down a contract to stay at the Camp Nou.
(4) m-Hydroxyamphetamine (mOHA) was found as a metabolite of amphetamine in rat urine, liver perfusate and bile.
(5) But the road was calling again, Moha told us; the Tizi n'Test had to be driven in daylight – and not just to make the best of the views.
(6) The amount of mOHA was low, about 10% of the ring hydroxylation could be accounted for as metahydroxylation.
(7) A trend that was started when Marc Muniesa – the defender who represented Spain at all age-group levels – arrived in 2013 on a free transfer has now seen Bojan Krkic, the highly rated teenage Morocco winger Moha El Ouriachi and Afellay join Mark Hughes’ increasingly cosmopolitan band.