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Definition: Eleusine


Part of Speech	Definition
Noun	1. Annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands.[Wordnet].
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Date "Eleusine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references)

Common Expressions: Eleusine

Expressions	Definition
Eleusine coracana	East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Eleusine indica	Coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Genus Eleusine	Annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
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Specialty Expressions: Eleusine

Expressions	Domain	Definition
ELEUSINE INDICA	Botanical	The young seedlings serve as a potherb. the plant is a chologogue. Seeds serve as a famine food and for making alcoholic beverages. medicinally it is used for convulsions, diarrhea, and dysentery. (references)
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Topics by Level of Interest: Eleusine
Topics sorted by level of Interest	Level (1=low, 600=high)		Topics sorted Alphabetically	Level (1=low, 600=high)
Eleusine indica	4		Eleusine indica	4
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

Synonyms: Eleusine
Position	Synonyms (sorted by strength)
Other	kurakkan.
Expression	genus Eleusine.
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Computed Synonyms: Eleusine

Rank	Intensity	Word	Synonyms	Synonyms of synonym
1	3.0091	Eleusine	millet	stem of maize, sorghum, etc, Indian millet, mill
2	3.0091	Eleusine	sorghum	broomcorn, durra, corn, milo, millet
3	1.8892	Eleusine	Eleusine millet	millet, sorghum, common millet, educating, nursing
4	1.0088	Eleusine	common millet	millet, the grain, broomcorn millet, Pearl millet, Eleusine millet
5	1.0088	Eleusine	kaffir corn	kaffir, Kafir corn, millet, sorghum
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100.					Top

Computed Expressions: Eleusine

Rank	Intensity	Expression	Synonyms	Synonyms of synonym
1	2.6690	Eleusine millet	millet	stem of maize, sorghum
2	2.0085	Eleusine millet	sorghum	broomcorn, durra
3	1.8892	Eleusine millet	Eleusine	millet, sorghum
4	1.6692	Eleusine millet	common millet	millet, the grain
5	1.0187	Eleusine millet	educating	practising, developing
6	1.0087	Eleusine millet	upbringing	education, breeding
7	1.0087	Eleusine millet	rearing	bottoming, tailing
8	1.0087	Eleusine millet	nursing	nurse, nurture
9	1.0086	Eleusine millet	nurturing	nurture, fooding
10	1.0086	Eleusine millet	caring	care, minding
11	1.0086	Eleusine millet	bring	fetch, carry
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100.					Top

Translations: Eleusine

Language	Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Ekinyambo	Omugusa (Eleusine, kaffir corn, millet, sorghum), Oburo (Eleusine, millet, sorghum). Additional references: Ekinyambo, Tanzania, Eleusine. (volunteer & more translations)
Karagwe	Omugusa (Eleusine, kaffir corn, millet, sorghum), Oburo (Eleusine, millet, sorghum). Additional references: Karagwe, Tanzania, Eleusine. (volunteer & more translations)
Kinyambo	Omugusa (Eleusine, kaffir corn, millet, sorghum), Oburo (Eleusine, millet, sorghum). Additional references: Kinyambo, Tanzania, Eleusine. (volunteer & more translations)
Kisuaheli	mtama (millet, common millet, Eleusine, Eleusine millet, sorghum), ulezi (upbringing, nurture, nurtured, upbringings, bring). Additional references: Kisuaheli, Tanzania, Burundi, Eleusine. (volunteer & more translations)
Kiswahili	mtama (millet, common millet, Eleusine, Eleusine millet, sorghum), ulezi (upbringing, nurture, nurtured, upbringings, bring). Additional references: Kiswahili, Tanzania, Burundi, Eleusine. (volunteer & more translations)
Nyambo	Omugusa (Eleusine, kaffir corn, millet, sorghum), Oburo (Eleusine, millet, sorghum). Additional references: Nyambo, Tanzania, Eleusine. (volunteer & more translations)
Ragwe	Omugusa (Eleusine, kaffir corn, millet, sorghum), Oburo (Eleusine, millet, sorghum). Additional references: Ragwe, Tanzania, Eleusine. (volunteer & more translations)
Rukaragwe	Omugusa (Eleusine, kaffir corn, millet, sorghum), Oburo (Eleusine, millet, sorghum). Additional references: Rukaragwe, Tanzania, Eleusine. (volunteer & more translations)
Runyambo	Omugusa (Eleusine, kaffir corn, millet, sorghum), Oburo (Eleusine, millet, sorghum). Additional references: Runyambo, Tanzania, Eleusine. (volunteer & more translations)
Swahili	mtama (millet, common millet, Eleusine, Eleusine millet, sorghum), ulezi (upbringing, nurture, nurtured, upbringings, bring). Additional references: Swahili, Tanzania, Burundi, Eleusine. (volunteer & more translations)
Ururagwe	Omugusa (Eleusine, kaffir corn, millet, sorghum), Oburo (Eleusine, millet, sorghum). Additional references: Ururagwe, Tanzania, Eleusine. (volunteer & more translations)
Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations).				Top

Language	Translations for “Eleusine” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Pig Latin	Eleusineway (Eleusine). Additional references: Pig Latin, Eleusine. (volunteer)
Terran B	Oturus (Eleusine). Additional references: Terran B, Eleusine. (volunteer)
Source: compiled by the editor.				Top