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hungry rice

noun

Etymology

So called by Europeans because it was mistakenly believed to be a famine food in West Africa.

Definitions

  1. The cereal Digitaria exilis or white fonio.

    • During the French colonial occupation of Mali and Senegal in the late 1800s, Europeans dubbed fonio “hungry rice”, believing it to be an inferior famine food. […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA