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finger millet

An annual plant (Eleusine coracana) in the grass family, native to the Old World tropics and an important cereal in India and Africa. Also called ragi.

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

African millet, coracan, corakan, Eleusine coracana, kurakkan, ragee, ragi

Eleusine, genus Eleusine - annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands

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

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