Eleusine coracana is an annual plant widely grown as a cereal in the arid areas of Africa and Asia. Earliest records of its cultivation in India show that it was cultivated in the Hallur region of Karnataka in the later Iron Age. It remains one of the main ingredients of the staple diet in Karnataka.
近义、反义、联想词
近义词
n.
millet
英英词典
african millet n.
East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient