English Explanatory Dictionary

hungry rice

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The cereal Digitaria exilis or white fonio.

Word forms

hungry rice

Etymology

So called by Europeans because it was mistakenly believed to be a famine food in West Africa.

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