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ra·gi

(răg′ē)

n. pl. ra·gis

[Hindi rāgī, from Sanskrit, perhaps of Dravidian origin.]

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ragi

(ˈræɡɪ) ,

raggee

raggy

(Plants) a cereal grass, Eleusine coracana, cultivated in Africa and Asia for its edible grain

[C18: from Hindi]

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rag•i

or rag•gee

(ˈræg i, ˈrɑ gi)

n.

a cereal grass, Eleusine coracana, cultivated in the Old World for its grain.

[1785–95; said to be < Deccan Hindi rāgī]

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ragi - East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient

African millet, coracan, corakan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, kurakkan, ragee

Eleusine, genus Eleusine - annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands

millet - any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine

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