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Definition of Sorghum
1. Noun. Economically important Old World tropical cereal grass.
Group relationships: Genus Sorghum
Specialized synonyms: Great Millet, Kaffir, Kaffir Corn, Kafir Corn, Sorghum Bicolor, Grain Sorghum, Sorgho, Sorgo, Sugar Sorghum, Sweet Sorghum, Aleppo Grass, Evergreen Millet, Johnson Grass, Means Grass, Sorghum Halepense, Broomcorn, Sorghum Vulgare Technicum
2. Noun. Annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses: sorghum.
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Genus, Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Family Graminaceae, Family Gramineae, Family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, Grass Family, Poaceae
3. Noun. Made from juice of sweet sorghum.
Definition of Sorghum
1. n. A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species, Sorghum Halepense, the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass (see Johnson grass), and S. vulgare, the Indian millet (see Indian millet, under Indian).
Definition of Sorghum
1. Noun. A cereal, ''Sorghum vulgare'' or ''Sorghum bicolor'', the grains of which are used to make flour and as cattle feed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sorghum
1. a cereal grass [n -S]
Medical Definition of Sorghum
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sorghum
Literary usage of Sorghum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1882)
"sorghum, Report of Standing Committee on. Iowa Agricultural Report, 1866, p. 223.
... Report of Committee on sorghum and its Products in Iowa. ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"Agriculturally the term sorghum is commonly restricted to the sweet or saccharine
varieties.1 Botanically the species, Andropogon sorghum, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The sorghums have been known from the remotest periods of history, and the
cultivation of sorghum probably had its origin in Africa, where a variety called ..."
4. The Cereals in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1908)
"The total per cent of sugar in the juice of sorghum manufactured commercially
... The rapid deterioration of the sugar in the sorghum from unknown causes, ..."
5. The Cereals in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1908)
"The total per cent of sugar in the juice of sorghum manufactured commercially
... The rapid deterioration of the sugar in the sorghum from unknown causes, ..."
6. Lost Crops of Africa: Grains edited by F. R. Ruskin (1999)
"But beyond Africa sorghum production is rising, mainly due to farmers who sell
their grain so that others can eat. The United States, Mexico, Honduras, ..."
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