nongrain

Etymology

From non- + grain.

nongrain means That which is not grain; a food product not categorised as a grain. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 73 out of 100.

noun

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, in tropical southeastern Yunnan.”