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Definition of Grain sorghum
1. Noun. Any of several sorghums cultivated primarily for grain.
Specialized synonyms: Doura, Dourah, Durra, Egyptian Corn, Guinea Corn, Indian Millet, Federita, Feterita, Sorghum Vulgare Caudatum, Hegari, Kaoliang, Milo, Milo Maize, Shallu, Sorghum Vulgare Rosburghii
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grain Sorghum
Literary usage of Grain sorghum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1911)
"SUMMARY OF THE VALUES OF grain sorghum AND CORN IN KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA.. In Table
V is given the minimum, maximum, and average value per acre of ..."
2. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"In this division the cultivation of Indian corn exceeds that of small grain.
Sorghum and the sugar beet arc successfully grown. The cultivation of the-grape ..."
3. Lost Crops of Africa: Grains edited by F. R. Ruskin (1999)
"Although it has been in the United States since the earliest days (see page 186),
grain sorghum first became a major American crop in the 1930s, ..."
4. Feeds and Feeding Abridged by William Arnon Henry, Frank Barron Morrison (1915)
"Most of the grain sorghum produced in the United States is grown in the southern
... Over much of the drier western portion of the grain-sorghum belt these ..."
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