Corakan (Noun)
Meaning
East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Corakan flour has been used to make bread in Asian cuisine for centuries.
- Rice and corakan were staples in my grandparents' diet growing up in India.
- This cereal grass called corakan produces small edible seeds after blooming in spring.
- Nutrient-rich corakan can grow under arid conditions which contributes to its regional value.
- Asian people from that era did cultivate crops of wheat corakan which required well-cared field watered mostly after short occasional drought seasons locally which occurs irregularly annually through-out arid Southeast-Asian semi-cropslandisContained crops yield seasonal wild-food růz