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eleusine Bot.|ɛljuːˈsiːn|
[mod.L. (J. Gaertner De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1788) I. 7), f. the name of the Attic town Eleusis, site of a temple to the corn-goddess Demeter + -ine4.]
A member of the genus of annual tropical grasses so named, some of which are grown for grain in Africa and Asia; also called ragi, finger millet, or birdsfoot millet.
1829Loudon Encyl. Plants 1089. 1914 H. Kraemer Applied & Economic Bot. v. 467 The fruit is a grain..the seed being always firmly united with the thin pericarp (except in Sporobolus, Eleusine, etc.). 1932Antiquity VI. 337 The usual method of planting [among the Nandi] is to have a little of everything in the same patch—eleusine, millet, maize, beans, and sweet potatoes. 1938Nature 6 Aug. 259/1 The staple food [of the Ciga of Uganda] is eleusine, eked out by peas, beans, corn and wild greens. 1969F. R. Allchin in Ucko & Dimbleby Domestication & Exploitation of Plants & Animals 327 The probability that certain of the millets, notably Eleusine and Pennisetum, were first domesticated in Africa. |