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Kaffir corn

noun
1.
Important for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves.  Synonyms: great millet, kaffir, kafir corn, Sorghum bicolor.






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"Kaffir corn" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Guards continued in hot pursuit of the Boers without so much as once catching sight of them. Repeatedly, however, we scrambled through huge patches of Indian or Kaffir corn, enough, so to say, to feed an army, but all left to rot and perish uncut. It was one of the few evidences which just then greeted us that war was really abroad in the land, and that they were no mere autumn manoeuvres ...
— With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back • Edward P. Lowry



Words linked to "Kaffir corn" :   kaffir, Sorghum bicolor, great millet, kafir corn, sorghum



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