| 释义 |
kurakkan|ˈkʊrəkkɑːn|
Also 7 coracan.
The Sinhala name for a type of cereal grass, Eleusine coracana (Indian raggee), which is extensively grown in chenas in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) where flour from its grain forms a staple food of the poorer villagers.
1681R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon i. iii. 11 There are divers other sorts of Corn, which serve the People for food in the absence of Rice... There is Coracan, which is a small seed like Mustard-seed. This they grind to meal or beat in a Mortar, and so make cakes of it. 1824A. Moon Catal. Indigenous & Exotic Plants Ceylon 9 Eleusine... 1 coracana, common,..Kurakkan,..Ceylon, cult. 1864G. H. K. Thwaites Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniæ v. 371 E. Coracana, Gærtn. (nom. vulg. ‘Koorakkan’), is extensively cultivated by the Cinghalese as a food grain. 1900J. D. Hooker in H. Trimen Hand-bk. Flora Ceylon V. 277 The Sinhalese ‘Kurrakan’..is a very stout prolific form of this, with the spikelets crowded in many series, and a globose rugose seed. It is extensively cultivated for its grain in Ceylon. 1913L. Woolf Village in Jungle i. 10 When the rains fall in November the ground is sown broadcast with millet or kurakkan. 1971Ceylon Daily News 18 Sept. 4/6 In the villages around here the traditional food has been kurakkan and curd. |