单词 | kurakkan |
释义 | kurakkann. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > other grains buckwheat1548 brank1577 bullimong1578 sesame1600 block-wheat1611 fundi1670 kurakkan1681 manna seeds1764 manna1780 teff1790 bajra1813 semsem1866 sesame grain1867 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > other grains buckwheat1548 brank1577 bullimong1578 block-wheat1611 kurakkan1681 rice1713 teff1790 bajra1813 1681 R. 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. 1824 A. Moon Catal. Indigenous & Exotic Plants Ceylon 9 Eleusine... 1 coracana, common,..Kurakkan,..Ceylon, cult. 1864 G. H. K. Thwaites Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniæ v. 371 E. Coracana, Gærtn. (nom. vulg. ‘Koorakkan’), is extensively cultivated by the Cinghalese as a food grain. 1900 J. 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. 1913 L. Woolf Village in Jungle i. 10 When the rains fall in November the ground is sown broadcast with millet or kurakkan. 1971 Ceylon Daily News 18 Sept. 4/6 In the villages around here the traditional food has been kurakkan and curd. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1681 |
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