Definitions for doura

doura dou·ra

Spelling: [doo r-uh]
IPA: /ˈdʊər ə/

Doura is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in doura (adoru).

Definitions for doura

noun

  1. durra.
  2. a type of grain sorghum with slender stalks, cultivated in Asia and Africa and introduced into the U.S.

Origin of doura

1790-1800; Arabic dhura(h)

Examples for doura

In Upper Egypt, ‘the doura constitutes almost the whole subsistence of the peasantry,’ p. 419.

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

As I turned, far off in Cairo I saw the first lights glittering across the fields of doura, silvery white, like diamonds.

Here and there the miniature forests of doura stood up almost still in the sunshine.

And the silence, broken only by the faint rustle of the doura, was startling, was almost dreadful.

But the doura rises higher than the heads of the naked children who stand among it to watch you canter past.

He put out one lean, dark hand, and pulled at the heavily podded head of a doura plant.

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

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

Word Value for doura
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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