doura
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Here and there the miniature forests of doura stood up almost still in the sunshine.
From Bella Donna A Novel by Robert Smythe Hichens
But the doura rises higher than the heads of the naked children who stand among it to watch you canter past.
From The Spell of Egypt by Robert Smythe Hichens
The smell of the putrefying corpses which lay around the walls and in the doura crop, together with the unhealthy climate and the filth of the town, was a fertile source of disease.
From The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston Churchill
Isaacson let go the podded head of the doura.
From Bella Donna A Novel by Robert Smythe Hichens
The mountains drew farther apart, revealing in their place numerous villages, and fields of white Indian corn, doura, and sugar-cane.
From Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
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