hungry rice

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The cereal Digitaria exilis or white fonio. uncountable
    — 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. […]

词源

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