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Definition of Kurakkan
1. Noun. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
Group relationships: Eleusine, Genus Eleusine
Generic synonyms: Millet
Definition of Kurakkan
1. Noun. finger millet ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kurakkan
Literary usage of Kurakkan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All about the "coconut Palm" (Cocos Nucifera): Including Practical by John Ferguson (1898)
"They may believe in the promise of the bank, but they do not see how a present
draft in the form of a bushel of kurakkan will deprive them of 150 coconuts ..."
2. The Indian Forester (1899)
"... square miles of magnificent ' forest merely for a crop of kurakkan or ...
on 'and poisoned themselves and their children by eating kurakkan * and amu, ..."
3. The Book of Noodles: Stories of Simpletons; Or, Fools and Their Follies by William Alexander Clouston (1888)
"He readily went in, and seeing a large kurakkan-grinder,2 thought that was the
heaviest thing in the room, and attempted to remove it. ..."
4. Bulletin by United States, United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Office of Experiment Stations (1905)
"Ragi millet or kurakkan From Colombo, Ceylon. ... sa^A Kiri (White or Milk) kurakkan.
The seed is broadcasted ai raked in or trampled in with the feet in ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"Several dry grains (so called as distin guished from rice, which is grown in
water) are grown ia Ceylon. These are chiefly kollu, millet, kurakkan, ..."
6. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies by Charles Prestwood Lucas (1906)
"Under this system the trees are cut down and burnt; the surface thus cleared is
raked over and sown with dry grain, such as hill-paddy, kurakkan, ..."
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