noun
definition
A kind of millet, a variety of sorghum; Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor).
Examples of durra in a Sentence
Besides coffee there is a large trade in durra, the kat plant (used by the Mahommedans as a drug), ghee, cattle, mules and camels, skins and hides, ivory and gums. The import trade is largely in cotton goods, but every kind of merchandise is included.
The soil, mainly alluvial, is naturally very fertile, and wherever cultivated yields abundant crops, durra being the principal grain grown.
Wheat and barley were the chief crops, and another plant, perhaps identical with the durra, i.e.
White durra of excellent quality is raised.
The riverain population is largely engaged in agriculture, the chief crops cultivated being durra, barley, wheat and cotton.
Dukhn, a species of millet which can grow in the arid northern districts is there the chief grain crop, its place in the south being taken by durra.
Of crops the vilayet produces wheat (which is indigenous), rice, barley (which takes the place of oats as food for horses), durra (a coarse, maize-like grain), sesame, cotton and tobacco; of fruits, the date, orange, lemon, fig, banana and pomegranate.
The inhabitants of the plains and foothills are for the most part semi-nomad shepherds, living on durra and milk.
Durra, ground-nuts, yams and cotton are the principal products, and the palm and banana abound.
Sorghum, an important tropical cereal known as black millet or durra.
Little bread is eaten, the Abyssinian preferring a thin cake of durra meal or teff, kneaded with water and exposed to the sun till the dough begins to rise, when it is baked.
The chief grain crop is durra, the staple food of the Sudanese.
On lands near the rivers the durra is sown after the flood has gone down and also at the beginning of the rainy season.
Cotton, cotton-seed and grain (durra, wheat, barley) sesame, livestock, hides and skins, beeswax, mother-of-pearl, senna and gold are also exported.
The imports are largely cotton goods, provisions, timber and cement; the exports gum, raw cotton, ivory, sesame, durra, senna, coffee (from Abyssinia), goat skins, &c. Forty miles north of Port Sudan is Mahommed Gul, the port for the mines of Gebet, worked by an English company.