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Czech
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: do‧chan
Noun
dochan m inan
- a plant of the genus Pennisetum
1939, František Vitásek, Fysický zeměpis, 3rd revised and enlarged edition, volume III. Rostlinstvo a živočišstvo, Praha: Nakladatelství Československé Akademie věd, published 1955, page 160:V tropické Africe, v Iráku a od východní Indie až po jižní Čínu poskytuje nažloutlé obilky dochan (Pennisetum typhoideum).- In tropical Africa, in Iraq, and from east India to south China pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) yields yellowish grain.
Declension
Declension of dochan (hard masculine inanimate)
Further reading
- dochan in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989