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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of durra, Andropogon Sorghum cernuus, with the densely flowered panicle abruptly bent or recurved so as to point downward.
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"chicken-corn," did not undergo so great a change, but the seeds became less polished and pellucid.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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