Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
sorghum , 1. Alsosorgo .
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- noun obsolete
sorghum
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- noun any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup
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Examples
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“Asal Kasab,” i.e. Sugar, possibly made from sorgho-stalks Holcus sorghum of which I made syrup in Central
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Numerous slaves were engaged in the labors of the field, cultivating sorgho, a kind of millet which forms the chief basis of their diet; and the most stupid expressions of astonishment ensued as the Victoria sped past like a meteor.
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Among them you can use the extracts from niebe leaves (vigna sp) for the green color and extracts from red sorgho (Sorghum sp) for colors going form red-brown to orange.
Chapter 4 1993
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Technologie traditionelle et valeur nutritive des "bieres" do sorgho du Cameroon.
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On the other hand, an increase in the retail price of whole meal maize should generally increase demand for other meal of equivalent quality (e.g. sorgho meal, millet) by low-income groups.
Chapter 4 1984
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Some nine years back there was found to be a carmine colouring matter in most parts of the Chinese sorgho, chiefly in the unpressed stem.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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The former enters largely into the composition of the sugar-cane, the beetroot, the sugar-maple, the sorgho grass, pumpkins, carrots, and a great variety of other plants.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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Sorghum and sorgho sucré, sugar and syrup from, to manufacture, 567, et seq.
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"Asal Kasab," i.e. Sugar, possibly made from sorgho-stalks Holcus sorghum of which I made syrup in Central
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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As for the cous-cous, the usual food of the negroes, it is made of the meal of sorgho, boiled up with milk.
Naufrage de la frigate la Méduse. English Jean Baptiste Henri Savigny 1818
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