éleusine
French, noun/e.lø.zin/
éleusine is spelled É-L-E-U-S-I-N-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 79 million words in written French, the 279,127th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Éleusine is a French feminine noun meaning “any of several grasses in the genus Eleusine, particularly the cereal finger millet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Autre nom de l’éleusine cultivée”.
What does éleusine mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineany of several grasses in the genus Eleusine, particularly the cereal finger millet
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Surnom de Déméter adorée à Éleusis.
noun: 1. Autre nom de l’éleusine cultivée.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of éleusine
- éleusines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce éleusine?
- /e.lø.zin/
- \e.lø.zin\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is éleusine in French?
éleusine appears about once in every 79 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).