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Definition of Eleusine coracana
1. Noun. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
Group relationships: Eleusine, Genus Eleusine
Generic synonyms: Millet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eleusine Coracana
Literary usage of Eleusine coracana
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"... (Eleusine coracana) is much cultivated in India and to some extent in Africa
as a cereal. It produces large crops of rather poor grain which is ..."
2. In Darkest Africa by Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"... village inhabited by salt-workers, there is a small grove of bananas, and a
few fields of Indian corn and Eleusine coracana. Thus, though the lake has a ..."
3. Origin of Cultivated Plants by Alphonse de Candolle (1885)
"... —Eleusine coracana, Gaertner This annual grass, which resembles the millets,
is cultivated especially in India and the Malay Archipelago. ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Eleusine coracana. '2—i ft high, closely related to and much resembling .ff.
Indira. Con be distinguished from it by its stouter habit, shorter, ..."
5. Origin of Cultivated Plants by Alphonse de Candolle (1886)
"... —Eleusine coracana, Gaertner This annual grass, which resembles the millets,
is cultivated especially in India and the Malay Archipelago. ..."
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