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ra·gi
(răg′ē)n. pl. ra·gis
See finger millet.
[Hindi rāgī, from Sanskrit, perhaps of Dravidian origin.]
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ragi
(ˈræɡɪ) ,raggee
orraggy
n
(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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| Noun | 1. | ragi - East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient 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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