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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Poaceae — thesorghums , including important foodcrop species.
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Examples
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One, the verticiliflorum form (previously known as Sorghum verticiliflorum) is a wild grass, distributed from the Sudan to South Africa.
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The other (previously known as Sorghum arundinaceum) is a wild and weedy rainforest species that flourishes in Africa's wet tropics, where today's domesticated sorghums are poorly adapted.
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Sorghum (Latin name Sorghum bicolor) is related to sugar cane and corn and is grown in arid regions of northeast Africa, India and the southern United States for food, fibre, fuel and animal feed.
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The Sorghum is a cereal crop that grows in stalk and ranges in size to over 6ft and 2 meters in average.
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Sorghum (Latin name Sorghum bicolor) is related to sugar cane and corn and is grown in arid regions of northeast Africa, India and the southern United States for food, fibre, fuel and animal feed.
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Lieutenant E.ward E. Sill, of General Daniel Butterfield's staff, whom I had met at Macon, during my absence had come to "Sorghum" from a fruitless trip to Macon for exchange, and I had promised to join him in an attempt to escape when he could secure a pair of shoes.
Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War George Washington Cable 1884
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Sorghum: Ground from milo, a grass crop popular in African and Indian climates.
Archive 2009-07-01 Sarah 2009
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Sorghum: Ground from milo, a grass crop popular in African and Indian climates.
A [Couple] Dozen Flours Sarah 2009
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It's a well-known fact that globalisation has devastated the lives of the rural and urban Indian poor; and Deb's accounts of farmers in Andhra Pradesh, "Red Sorghum: Farmers in the Free Market", and particularly the chapter with the self-explanatory title, "The Factory: The Permanent World of Temporary Workers", are excoriating.
The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India by Siddhartha Deb – review 2011
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Sorghum for Biofuels conference begins in Houston.
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