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Meanings of kaffir in English
Important for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves.
A slur used to refer to indigenous black people in South Africa; derived from the Arabic term for "unbeliever", i.e. pagan.
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Examples for "great millet"
Examples for "great millet"
1
He is visibly overburdened here by the heritage of the great Millet and the awful Adolphe Monticelli.
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Some crops, like the sorghums and Kafir corn, are peculiarly at home in scantily watered lands.
2
Kafir corn, stock peas, rape, sugar-beets and artichokes are the varieties about which we desire information.
3
Mr. V. counted the separate bags filled with mealies and Kafir corn placed in groups around the sheller.
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The new-comers, I am glad to say, have sown wheat, mealies and Kaffir corn.
2
Does Kaffir corn yield as well here as Egyptian corn?
3
There is no difference between Kaffir corn and Egyptian corn so far as feeding goes.
4
The Kaffir corn and sunflowers are knocked down where they stand and are threshed by the hens.
5
Blackbirds do not damage the white Kaffir corn to the extent they do the ordinary white Egyptian corn.
1
Furthermore, the ABA signaling pathway in Sorghum bicolor was understood better by interaction analysis.
2
A new method is described for immobilization of oxalate oxidase purified from grain sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor, var.
3
Sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor) is the fifth most important cereal crop in the world.
Usage of kaffir in English
1
He was on a kaffir path heading out to who knows where.
2
I gave you your kaffir concert, now I want my brigadier concert!
3
I admit I phoned Pretoria about the kaffir concert, I admit that.
4
Always remember, when you hit a kaffir, stay away from his head.
5
But Granpa Chook had done enough running for one old kaffir chicken.
6
You got to watch the kaffir, or the black bastard pinches everything.
7
You and your stupid kaffir chicken are dead meat when he comes.
8
There was a clear view from the kaffir path to the curtained window.
9
I left him on the kaffir path and came straight home.
10
For sure they'd keep kaffir chickens, and Granpa Chook could board with them.
11
The boy wasn't lost; he walked as if he owned the kaffir path.
12
First we'll check the kaffir path and then The Protea Guesthouse.
13
In a saucepan heat stock, kaffir lime leaves and lemongrass until piping hot.
14
He was only a kaffir, but I miss him a lot, he confided.
15
I swear I was at home the night the kaffir died.
16
Shabalala picked the old soldier up and raced along the narrow kaffir path.
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Kaffir through the time
Kaffir across language varieties
South Africa
Common
Australia
Common
United Kingdom
Rare