Definition of "doura" [dou•ra]

• Variants of durra. (noun)

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• "The mountains drew farther apart, revealing in their place numerous villages, and fields of white Indian corn, doura, and sugar-cane."
• "For several months he was heavily chained and fed on a daily handful of uncooked doura, such as is given to horses and mules."
• "The smell of the putrefying corpses which lay around the walls and in the doura crop, together with the unhealthy climate and the filth of the town, was a fertile source of disease."