african_millet (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *African millet*:
NOUN	plant	African millet, finger millet, ragi, ragee, coracan, corakan, kurakkan, Eleusine coracana	East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient

English > *African millet*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
Synonyms	finger millet, ragi, ragee, coracan, corakan, kurakkan, Eleusine coracana
Member of	Eleusine, genus Eleusine	annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands
Broader	millet	Any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
Spanish	coracan, corakan, ragi
Catalan	ragi

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