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Definition of Dourah
1. Noun. Sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa.
Generic synonyms: Grain Sorghum
Definition of Dourah
1. durra [n -S] - See also: durra
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dourah
Literary usage of Dourah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1843)
"dourah is produced in considerable quantities in Upper Egypt ; its ordinary price
is 30 to 40 per cent less than that of wheat. It is more commonly the food ..."
2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1843)
"dourah is produced in considerable quantities in Upper Egypt ; its ordinary price
is 30 to 40 per cent less than that of wheat. ..."
3. Irrigation in Egypt by Julien Hippolyte Eugène Barois, United States Army. Corps of Engineers (1889)
"height to which the water is to be elevated; therefore, they are content to water
only the land which borders the river, and they here alternate dourah in ..."
4. The Technologist (1863)
"Then they bear different local names in different countries :—The broom corn of
the United States, the negro or Guinea corn of the West Indies, the dourah ..."
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