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DURRA

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dur⋅ra

  [door-uh]
–noun
a type of grain sorghum with slender stalks, cultivated in Asia and Africa and introduced into the U.S.
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Also, doura, dourah.
Also called Indian millet, Guinea corn.

Origin:
1790–1800; < Ar dhura(h)
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dur·ra also dou·ra or dou·rah   (dŏŏr'ə)   
n.  A cereal grain (Sorghum bicolor) of Asia and northern Africa, much cultivated in dry regions. Also called Egyptian corn.

[Arabic ḏura, grain; see ḏrw in Semitic roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Durra
Description language for coarse-grained concurrency on heterogeneous processors. "Durra: A Task-level Description Language", M.R. Barbacci et al, CMU/SEI-86-TR-3, CMU 1986.

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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