A variety of grain sorghum grown in Africa and Asia, used for food and animal feed.
From Arabic 'hegira' or Hindi 'jowar,' this is a loan word from languages of regions where the crop was traditionally grown. The term entered English through trade and agricultural contact in the 19th century.
Hegari is evidence of how food plants carry their names across the world—every agricultural word in English often comes from the place where that plant was originally cultivated and valued, making our crop vocabulary a map of human trade history.
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