hungry rice

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hungry rice

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

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uncountable The cereal Digitaria exilis or white fonio. 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. […]

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@misc{hungry_rice_2026,
  title = {hungry rice},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hungry%20rice},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}