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Sorghum

noun

Economically important Old World tropical cereal grass.

Annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses: sorghum. Synonym: genus Sorghum.

Made from juice of sweet sorghum. Synonym: sorghum molasses.

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"Sorghum" Quotes from Famous Books

... half an inch.—Translator's Note.); the narrowest measure six or seven. (About a quarter of an inch.—Translator's Note.) In the latter, if the bottom suit her, the Osmia sets to work bringing pollen and honey. If the bottom do not suit her, if the sorghum-pith plug with which I have closed the rear-end of the tube be too irregular and badly-joined, the Bee coats it with a little mortar. When this small repair is made, the ...

— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre

... led through vast fields of millet, Indian corn, holcus sorghum, maweri, or panicum, or bajri, as called by the Arabs; gardens of sweet potatoes, large tracts of cucumbers, water-melons, mush-melons, and pea-nuts which grew in the deep furrows between ...

— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley

Words linked to "Sorghum" : family Gramineae, Poaceae, Graminaceae, Aleppo grass, kaffir, syrup, kaffir corn, means grass, millet, Gramineae, great millet, sirup, evergreen millet, broomcorn, monocot genus, sorgho, family Graminaceae, sweet sorghum, sorgo, grass family, liliopsid genus, kafir corn, Johnson grass, family Poaceae