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

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  • Now, curiously enough, as soon as the rice and coracan are removed and the fences are broken, the elephants walk into the fields and regularly glean them.
  • Thus a single watcher is able to keep them off the rice and coracan lands; and in some places, where these intervene between their haunts and the tanks where they are...
  • Close to the edge of this the cultivated land of the village extended, and people were stationed in watch-houses erected up among the branches of the trees, shrieking and...
  • French: petit mil, eleusine cultivee, coracan, koracan
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