Teff

//tɛf// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A love grass, Eragrostis tef, with small seeds, grown as a cereal and for forage in Ethiopia and parts of Arabia. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    an African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flour of good quality) as well as for forage and hay wordnet
  3. 3
    The fine grain of this plant. countable, uncountable

    "She begs the cook to help lift the bags of teff and check their weight."

Synonyms

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eragrostic abyssinicaeragrostis tefteff grass

Example

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"The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization is giving emergency supplies of wheat, teff and chickpea seed to 20,000 farming households affected by the conflict, OCHA said."

Etymology

Borrowed from Amharic ጤፍ (ṭēff).

Related phrases

eragrostis teflove grass

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