Ovule vs Millet - What's the difference?

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Ovule is a related term of millet.

As a verb ovule

is .

As a proper noun millet is

ovule

English

(wikipedia ovule)

Noun

(en noun)

(botany) The structure in a plant that develops into a seed after fertilization; the megasporangium of a seed plant with its enclosing integuments.

(zoology) An immature ovum in mammals.

millet

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m); ultimately from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(-)

Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.

Hyponyms

* (food grains)

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

* barnyard millet * broom corn millet * browntop millet * common millet * finger millet * foxtail millet * Guinea millet * hog millet * Japanese millet * kodo millet * little millet * milletgrass, millet grass * pearl millet * proso millet * white millet

External links

* ("millet" on Wikipedia) * (Millet)

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

(historical) A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.

* 2007 , Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain , Hurst & Co. 2007, page 14:

in support for a common Serbian Orthodox Church, the one traditional institution permitted to exist under the Ottoman millet system which sought to rule subject peoples indirectly through their own religious hierarchies.

* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, page 262:

Christians and Jews as People of the Book were organized into separate communities, or millets , defined by their common practice of the same religion, which was guaranteed as protected as long as it was primarily practised in private.