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finger millet

n. A plant, ''Eleusine coracana'', grown as a cereal in parts of Africa and Asia

WordNet
finger millet

n. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient [syn: ragi, ragee, African millet, coracan, corakan, kurakkan, Eleusine coracana]

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Most are still grown mainly just in Ethiopia and remain unknown to Americans including Ethiopia's narcotic chat, its banana-like ensete, its oily noog, its finger millet used to brew its national beer, and its tiny-seeded cereal called teff, used to make its national bread.