Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A love grass (Eragrostis tef) native to northeastern Africa and southwestern Arabia, used as a cereal crop and livestock forage.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An annual cereal grass, Poa Abyssinica, the most important food-plant of Abyssinia. Its grains, which are of the size of a pinhead, afford a very white flour which makes an excellent bread of an agreeable acidulous taste.
Wiktionary
- n. A love grass, Eragrostis tef, with small seeds, grown as a cereal and for forage in Ethiopia and parts of Arabia
- n. The fine grain of this plant
WordNet 3.0
- n. an African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flour of good quality) as well as for forage and hay
Etymologies
- Amharic ጤፍ (ṭēff) (Wiktionary)
- Amharic ṭef; see ṭḥp in Semitic roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“* steel cut oats (which I had never tried before and which were delightfully chewy) * whole grain teff seeds”
“Bags of alternative flours, including an African grain called teff, sat on the kitchen counter next to a standing mixer.”
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“Similarly, teff, which is the staple food for a significant proportion of Ethiopians and which has a low water demand, is presently grown under irrigation, but because of its low productivity and high labor demand it may be replaced by another crop.”
“The spicy chili paste berbera belongs to their gastronomic palette along with injera, a light, sour-tasting and thin bread made from a grain called teff that is similar to millet.”
“Ethiopians (notably those living outside their native land) have found that triticale flour can be substituted for at least 50 percent of other traditional flours such as teff and buckwheat, used in making the national food, enjera.”
“It's got whole-grain goodness from the teff which is part of its flour mix.”
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“The average family cannot afford the most popular staple grains, such as teff, which retails at $8 per kg in Asmara, and is used to make injera, a pancake that is the mainstay of an Eritrean meal.”
“In fact, the word "teff" translates to "loss" in the Ethiopian language of Amarigna.”
“... cultivation had shifted to maize from more traditional crops, such as teff, barley, and sorghum.”
“About 1 cup assorted whole grain flours -- I used 75% oat flour and 25% teff flour”
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Grasses
Grasses, and words about grasses.
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Names of medical marijuana strains can be found elsewhere.cheatgrass, downy brome, chess, brome, bronco-grass, graminoid, grassland, phytolith, steppe, tallgrass prairie, sword grass, panicle and 323 more...
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Flora
fenugreek, verbena, saxifrage, arbutus, calendula, nasturtium, lobelia, hellebore, rhododendron, philodendron, bellflower, heuchera and 449 more...
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new food
feijoa, choi, coffee, lychee, mustard, kale, collards, capers, turon, quinoa, epazote, nutritional yeast and 20 more...
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Eating Words
eat, fret, frass, etch, ort, edacious, edible, escarole, esculent, esurient, comedo, comestible and 49 more...
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Seeds from an Abdelavi
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Theorie: The Madwoman's Underclothes
'The Madwoman's Underclothes' book is a collection of writings by Germaine Greer from 1968 to 1985. The title refers to what she sees as being the media's obsession with her going bra-less. Warning...
homespun, shuck, flyte, animadversion, groover, tom jones, fucker, cocksman, sweety-sharp, goatman, ha-ha, corridor of power and 84 more...
Tweets
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bilby "Perhaps what decided them was the sight of one of the volunteer ladies wobbling through the mud with the invalids' food piled up in plastic boxes in two clean pails. In each box could be seen voluptuous folds of good injera made with pure teff, and out of the folds bulged thick yellow shiro."
- 'Resetlement, Ethiopia, 1985', Germaine Greer in The Madwoman's Underclothes. Sep 1, 2008