finger millet

finger millet

n.

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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Noun

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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