Kaffir-corn synonyms

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great millet
important for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves
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kaffir
Used especially in southern Africa as a disparaging term for a black person.
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kafir corn
important for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves
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sorghum-bicolor
A taxonomic species within the family Poaceae — cultivated sorghum, native to north Africa, widely cultivated in warmer climates.
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Kaffir-corn Sentence Examples

  • In nonArabic-speaking countries it is known by other names, such as Indian or African millet, pearl millet, Guinea corn and Kaffir corn.

  • Besides maize the crops cultivated by the natives are Kaffir corn or amabele (Sorghum caffrorum)- used in the manufacture of utyuala, native beer - imfi (Sorghum saccharatum), tobacco, pumpkins and sweet potatoes.

  • The chief crop is mealies, the staple food of the natives; wheat, oathay, Kaffir corn and oats coming next.

  • The principal cereal crops are wheat, with a yield of 1,701,000 bushels in 1904, oats, barley, rye, mealies (Indian corn) and Kaffir corn (a kind of millet).

  • Mealies (extensively used as food for cattle and horses) are very largely grown by the coloured population and Kaffir corn almost exclusively so.

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