FINGER MILLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does finger millet mean? 

• FINGER MILLET (noun)
  The noun FINGER MILLET has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: FINGER MILLET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FINGER MILLET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

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

Hypernyms ("finger millet" 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 ("finger millet" is a member of...):

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

 Context examples 

India grows a variety of coarse grains — including sorghum, pearl millet, maize, barley, and finger millet — as well as many ‘small millets’ such as kodo millet, little millet, foxtail millet, proso millet, and barnyard millet.

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