Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cultivated grass (Sorghum bicolor) native to sub-Saharan Africa, several varieties of which are widely grown for their grain, as forage, or as a source of syrup.
- noun Syrup made from the juice of this plant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the former genus Sorghum, commonly the cultivated saccharine plant once known as Sorghum (or Holcus) saccharatum, lately considered a variety of S. vulgare, but now classified as Andropogon Sorghum, var. saccharatus.
- noun A former genus of grasses, of the tribe Andropogoneæ, now included as a subgenus in Andropogon (Edouard Hackel, 1889).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species,
Sorghum Halepense , the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass (seeJohnson grass ), andS. vulgare , the Indian millet (see Indian millet, underIndian ). - noun A variety of
Sorghum vulgare , grown for its saccharine juice; the Chinese sugar cane.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
cereal , Sorghum vulgare or Sorghum bicolor, the grains of which are used to makeflour and ascattle feed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun made from juice of sweet sorghum
- noun economically important Old World tropical cereal grass
- noun annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses: sorghum
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This company has a very cool story about how sorghum is much easier to grow than corn and doesn't have the husks that get stuck in your teeth!
Maria Rodale: The Best New Organic Products: Coming Soon to a Store Near You, Part 2 Maria Rodale 2010
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This company has a very cool story about how sorghum is much easier to grow than corn and doesn't have the husks that get stuck in your teeth!
Maria Rodale: The Best New Organic Products: Coming Soon to a Store Near You, Part 2 Maria Rodale 2010
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Which by the way is a term referring to a specific type of grain sorghum in the U.S.
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Now, Cornell researchers have cloned a novel aluminum-tolerant gene in sorghum and expect to have genetically engineered aluminum-tolerant sorghum lines by next year.
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Black soil and sweet brown sorghum from the every morning biscuits
“The Afterbirth, 1931″–the Poem : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Veracruz port grains imports were estimated at some 4.6 million tons in 1998\emdash mostly corn, wheat and sorghum from the United States\emdash compared to 3.3 million tons in 1997.
Successful expansion in a more efficient Port of Veracruz 1998
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Veracruz port grains imports were estimated at some 4.6 million tons in 1998\emdash mostly corn, wheat and sorghum from the United States\emdash compared to 3.3 million tons in 1997.
Successful expansion in a more efficient Port of Veracruz 1998
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Veracruz port grains imports were estimated at some 4.6 million tons in 1998\emdash mostly corn, wheat and sorghum from the United States\emdash compared to 3.3 million tons in 1997.
Successful expansion in a more efficient Port of Veracruz 1998
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The region's three three top spellers went head-to-head for four more rounds until Wyoming Seminary seventh-grader Benjamin Hornung was done in by "sorghum" - a type of grass or a syrup from the juice of a sorgo.
Times Leader News 2009
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The region's three top spellers went head-to-head for four more rounds until Wyoming Seminary seventh-grader Benjamin Hornung was done in by "sorghum" - a type of grass or a syrup from the juice of a sorgo.
Times Leader News 2009
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