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Definition of Eleusine
1. Noun. Annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands.
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Genus, Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Family Graminaceae, Family Gramineae, Family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, Grass Family, Poaceae
Member holonyms: Eleusine Indica, Goose Grass, Wire Grass, Yard Grass, Yardgrass, African Millet, Coracan, Corakan, Eleusine Coracana, Finger Millet, Kurakkan, Ragee, Ragi
Definition of Eleusine
1. Noun. A tropical grass similar to millet, grown as a food crop and also used for weaving. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eleusine
Literary usage of Eleusine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"The cultivated plant is supposed to be a derivative of the wild eleusine indica,
native to India. It is markedly characterized by having 5 to 7 elongate ..."
2. The Grasses of Iowa by Louis Hermann Pammel, Julius Buel Weems, F. Lamson-Scribner (1904)
"eleusine Indica Gaertn. Fruct. and Sem. 1: 8. 1788. Watson and Coulter. ...
eleusine Indica is naturalized in southern Iowa from Davenport and Muscatine to ..."
3. The Philippine Journal of Science by Institute of Science and Technology (Philippines) (1906)
"eleusine Gaertn. 1. E. indica (Linn.) Gaertn. Hook. f. 1. c. 203. (800 Borden).
In open lands below 100 m., widely distributed in the Philippines. ..."
4. The Negro Races: A Sociological Study by Jerome Dowd (1914)
"... THE NIAM-NIAM OP THE eleusine ZONE (continued) Religious Life.—The religion
of the Niam-Niam is fetich, but in a form in which terror of spirits is not ..."
5. In Darkest Africa by Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"... village inhabited by salt-workers, there is a small grove of bananas, and a
few fields of Indian corn and eleusine coracana. Thus, though the lake has a ..."
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