finger millet

Questions about finger millet

What does finger millet mean?

finger millet means "East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient".

What is another word for finger millet?

Close synonyms include ragi, ragee, African millet, coracan, corakan. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is finger millet a common word?

finger millet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.