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KURAKKAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does kurakkan mean?
• KURAKKAN (noun)
The noun KURAKKAN has 1 sense:
1. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient
Familiarity information: KURAKKAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("kurakkan" 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 ("kurakkan" is a member of...):
Eleusine; genus Eleusine (annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands)
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