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hungry rice en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (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. […] [2023 July 6, Maria C. Hunt, “Could an ancient, climate-friendly crop be the future of beer?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN: