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TEFF

Dictionary entry overview: What does teff mean?

• TEFF (noun)
The noun TEFF has 1 sense:

1. an African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flower of good quality) as well as for forage and hay

Familiarity information: TEFF used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• TEFF (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flower of good quality) as well as for forage and hay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Eragrostic abyssinica; Eragrostis tef; teff; teff grass

Hypernyms ("teff" is a kind of...):

bay grass; love grass (any of various grasses of the genus Eragrostis; specially useful for forage and for the prevention of erosion)

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