Amaranth vs. Millet — What's the Difference?

Amaranthus is a cosmopolitan genus of annual or short-lived perennial plants collectively known as amaranths. Some amaranth species are cultivated as leaf vegetables, pseudocereals, and ornamental plants.

Millets () are a group of highly variable small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food. Millets are important crops in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa (especially in India, Mali, Nigeria, and Niger), with 97% of millet production in developing countries.

Any of various annual plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense green or reddish clusters of tiny flowers and including weeds, ornamentals, and species cultivated for their edible leaves and seeds. Also called pigweed.

A cereal grown in warm countries and regions with poor soils, bearing a large crop of small seeds which are chiefly used to make flour.

The small edible seeds of several of these species.

Any of various annual grasses with small grains that are harvested for food, livestock feed, and birdseed, especially proso millet.

An imaginary flower that never fades.

The grains of any of these plants.

A deep reddish purple to dark or grayish, purplish red.

A demographic group in the Ottoman Empire, defined in terms of religious affiliation and enjoying a degree of legal autonomy.

A dark red to purple azo dye.

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

An imaginary flower that does not wither.

(specifically) common millet, in particular Panicum miliaceum.

Any of various herbs of the genus Amaranthus.

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

The characteristic purplish-red colour of the flowers or leaves of these plants.

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.

(chemistry) A red to purple azo dye used as a biological stain, and in some countries in cosmetics and as a food colouring.

Any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine

(cooking) The seed of these plants, used as a cereal.

French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)

An imaginary flower supposed never to fade.

Small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica

A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers.

A color inclining to purple.

Seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America

Any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food