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Meaning of hungry rice | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The cereal Digitaria exilis or white fonio.

uncountable

Examples

“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. […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Hungry Thirties Hungryalism Hungtse hungweiping Hünig's base Hunigoderehaa

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