doura
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Giraffes and antelopes and ostriches are provided with the doura corn that grows in the interior.
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The peasants in their gay-coloured clothing are ploughing the rich, red-brown soil for the late crop of doura.
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He saw the brakes of sugar-cane waving, the tall doura swaying in the breeze, where only the sands had been.
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By help of the irrigation thus contrived, the great plateau of Iran will produce good crops of grain, rice, wheat, barley, Indian corn, doura, millet, and sesame.
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Here and there, indeed, are scanty plantations of cotton, with a few patches of doura, barley, and wheat.
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