African millet

African millet

noun
1.
a grass, Eleusine coracana, of Asia and Africa, having round fruit with a loose husk, grown as a cereal and as an ornamental.

Origin:
1835–45
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african millet

noun
East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient [syn: finger millet
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