RAGI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ragi mean? 

• RAGI (noun)
  The noun RAGI has 1 sense:

1. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient

  Familiarity information: RAGI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAGI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

African millet; coracan; corakan; Eleusine coracana; finger millet; kurakkan; ragee; ragi

Hypernyms ("ragi" is a kind of...):

millet (any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine)

Holonyms ("ragi" is a member of...):

Eleusine; genus Eleusine (annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands)