nongrain
nongrain noun: that which is not grain; a food product not categorised as a grain.
Noun
nongrain (plural nongrains)
- That which is not grain; a food product not categorised as a grain.
- Most of the chronically poor counties in Yunnan Province in the late 1970s tended to specialize in nongrain crops in the late 1950s. That was particularly true of ten counties, almost half the provincial total of chronically poor counties, located in two contiguous prefectures, Wenshan and Hungho...1983, Nicholas R. Lardy, “Living standards and the distribution of income”, in Agriculture in China's modern economic development, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 185
Forms of nongrain
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Origin of nongrain
From non- + grain.
Questions about nongrain
- What does nongrain mean?
- Nongrain means that which is not grain; a food product not categorised as a grain.
- What part of speech is nongrain?
- Nongrain is a noun.
- What is the plural of nongrain?
- The plural of nongrain is nongrains.
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