miliary

(noun, adjective)

adjective

1. Of or pertaining to millet seeds.

2. (medicine) Having small lesions that are the shape and size of millet seeds.

- a miliary eruption

- a miliary fever

3. Small and numerous.

- the miliary tubercles of Echini

noun

1. (zoology) One of the small tubercles of Echinus sea urchins.