ELEUSINE CORACANA

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Meaning:

East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient

Synonyms:

African millet; coracan; corakan; Eleusine coracana; finger millet; kurakkan; ragee; ragi

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Eleusine coracana" is a kind of...):

millet (any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine)

Holonyms ("Eleusine coracana" is a member of...):

Eleusine; genus Eleusine (annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands)

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