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Ragi

noun
1.
East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.  Synonyms: African millet, coracan, corakan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, kurakkan, ragee.






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"Ragi" Quotes from Famous Books



... and pepper-vines, and it would be interesting to try such composts in the case of coffee. It would also be interesting to experiment with ordinary good soil taken from the grass lands. I am informed by a native farmer that the terraces on which ragi is grown, are occasionally dressed with such soil, and that the manurial effect of it lasts for two years, but no doubt the effect is much increased by the physical effect caused by the addition of the soil. The more I have studied these subjects ...
— Gold, Sport, And Coffee Planting In Mysore • Robert H. Elliot

... in the story. One was called Thorarin, the second Ragi, and the third Glum. They were the sons of Olof the Halt, and were men of much worth and of great wealth in goods. Thorarin's surname was Ragi's brother; he had the Speakership of the Law after Rafn Heing's son. He was a very wise man, and lived at Varmalek, and he and Glum kept ...
— Njal's Saga • Unknown Icelanders



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