Definition of dhurra. Meaning of dhurra. Synonyms of dhurra

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Definition of dhurra

Dhurra
Dhoorra Dhoor"ra, Dhourra Dhour"ra, or Dhurra Dhur"ra, n. Indian millet. See Durra.
dhurra
Durra Dur"ra, n. [Ar. dhorra.] (Bot.) A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called also Indian millet, and Guinea corn. [Written also dhoorra, dhurra, doura, etc.]

Meaning of dhurra from wikipedia

- head, often carrying large bows-and-arrows as he offered prisoners and dhurra (millet) to the ruling qore (king). The crops are evidence that he also...
- herds of sheep and goats. They are however essentially cultivators who grow dhurra or "dukhn" (bull-rush millet), either on small plains irrigated by the floods...
- pretty little round huts made of hewn tree trunks with conical thatch of dhurra stalks. Most of their settlements are rather hamlets than villages... — Von...