Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various sorghums that are cultivated as a source of syrup.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as sorghum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) Indian millet and its varieties. See sorghum.

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  • noun archaic sorghum

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Italian; see sorghum.]

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Compare Italian sorgo.

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Examples

  • Her husband, Edwin Winthrop, had started out as a farmer, raising sorgo-sweet sorghum grown widely in southern Anderith.

    Soul of the Fire Goodkind, Terry 1999

  • By doing everything himself-or, more accurately, having his own hired workers do everything-from growing sorgo to pressing it to distilling it to delivering the rum, to raising, cattle on the fodder of his leftover stocks of pressed sorghum to slaughtering the cattle and delivering the carcasses to butchers, Edwin Winthrop kept his costs low and made for himself a fortune.

    Soul of the Fire Goodkind, Terry 1999

  • Characterization and environment-management relationships in beans and sorghum intercropped with maize in honduras. (caracterizacion y relaciones ambiente-manejo en sistemas de frijol y sorgo asociados con maiz en Honduras.)

    1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia. 1992

  • Characterization and environment-management relationships in beans and sorghum intercropped with maize in honduras. (caracterizacion y relaciones ambiente-manejo en sistemas de frijol y sorgo asociados con maiz en Honduras.) 17.

    1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia. 1992

  • En el municipio de Somotillo, comarca jícaro bonito el señor Catalino Mairena Betanco, se dedica a la crianza de ganado bobino, porcino y Aviar, también establece cultivos como maíz, frijol blanco y sorgo los que brindan lo necesario para el sostén familiar.

    Kiva Loans 2010

  • Es por esta razón que espera que su crédito sea otorgado a lo inmediato para dar lugar al riego del cultivo de sorgo en su localidad.

    Kiva Loans 2009

  • Él ha acudido a Ceprodel con el fin de solicitar el crédito para invertirlo en el riego para el cultivo de sorgo y el pago de mozo para el corte y almacenamiento.

    Kiva Loans 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • En el municipio de Somotillo, comarca el caimito, el señor Reynaldo Martínez, se ha dedicado la mayor parte de su viada al desarrollo de actividades agropecuarias dentro de las cuales se destacan la crianza de ganado tanto mayor y menor especies como ganado bobino, porcino y aviar también establece cultivos como maíz, ajonjolí y sorgo dichas actividades las realiza con su esposa y nieto que tiene a cargo en una jornada de 6 a 2 de la tarde, con el crédito solicitado será empleado en la compra de tres vacas paridas las que garantizaran parte de su alimentos para su hogar, así como también la mejora y aumento de su hato ganadero y de esta manera mejorar su condición social.

    Kiva Loans 2010

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