Sorghum

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An Old World grass (Sorghum bicolor), several varieties of which are widely cultivated as grain and forage or as a source of syrup.
  • n. Syrup made from the juice of this plant.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A cereal, Sorghum vulgare or Sorghum bicolor, the grains of which are used to make flour and as cattle feed.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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).
  • n. A variety of Sorghum vulgare, grown for its saccharine juice; the Chinese sugar cane.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
  • n. A former genus of grasses, of the tribe Andropogoneæ, now included as a subgenus in Andropogon (Edouard Hackel, 1889).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. made from juice of sweet sorghum
  • n. economically important Old World tropical cereal grass
  • n. annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses: sorghum
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    Johnson grass    Indian   
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    guinea corn    durra    milo    cholam    kaoliang    juar    Kafir corn    jowar    mtama   
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    sugar cane    millet    lentil    sesame    maize    cassava    hominy    cassada    acorn    cereal