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noun
A love grass, Eragrostis tef, with small seeds, grown as a cereal and for forage in Ethiopia and parts of Arabia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The fine grain of this plant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
an African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flour of good quality) as well as for forage and hay
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: teff grass, Eragrostis tef, Eragrostic abyssinica
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: love grass, bay grass
History
Borrowed from Amharic ጤፍ (ṭēff).
Across languages
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
