doura

American  

[door-uh] / ˈdʊər ə /

Or dourah

noun

1. a variant of durra.

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doura British  

/ ˈdʊərə /

noun

1. a variant of durra

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Example Sentences

Close to the right of the front of Medinet-Abu there are trees covered with yellow flowers; beyond are fields of doura.

From The Spell of Egypt by Hichens, Robert Smythe

Creeping forward through the high doura, they were able to get within 300 yards of the enclosures.

From The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Churchill, Winston

The mountains drew farther apart, revealing in their place numerous villages, and fields of white Indian corn, doura, and sugar-cane.

From Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules

The peasants in their gay-coloured clothing are ploughing the rich, red-brown soil for the late crop of doura.

From Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit by Van Dyke, Henry

Giraffes and antelopes and ostriches are provided with the doura corn that grows in the interior.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 by Various