Sorghum

//ˈsɔ(ɹ).ɡəm// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A cereal, Sorghum genus and species, the grains of which are cultivated to make flour and feed cattle. Almost all cultivated ones as well as some wild ones belong to the species Sorghum bicolor (syn. Sorghum vulgare). countable, uncountable

    "1936, Harry Nelson Vinall, Joseph Charlworth Stephens, John Holmes Martin, Identification, History, and Distribution of Common Sorghum Varieties, US Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin No. 506, page 2, The sorghum crop has four uses — forage, grain, sirup, and industrial (such as the manufacture of brooms, wallboard, etc.)."

  2. 2
    made from juice of sweet sorghum wordnet
  3. 3
    Sorghum syrup. Southern-US, countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    economically important Old World tropical cereal grass wordnet

Synonyms

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ambrosiaartificial sweetenerblackstrapcalcium cyclamatecane syrupcholam

Example

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"How would wheat grow, if you've sown sorghum?"

Etymology

From New Latin genus name Sorghum, from Italian sorgo, from Vulgar Latin *syricum (“Syrian”), from Sȳricus. Doublet of the synonyms sorgho (via French) and sorgo (via Italian).

Related phrases

sorghum downy mildewsorghum midgesorghum molassessorghum rumsorghum syrupsorghum whiskeysorghum whiskysweet sorghumyellow sorghum stuntsorghum bicolorsorghum syrup

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