sorghum Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun economically important Old World tropical cereal grass
  2. noun annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses: sorghum
    genus Sorghum.
  3. noun made from juice of sweet sorghum
    sorghum molasses.

WordNet

Sor"ghum noun
Etymology
NL., probably of Chinese origin.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) (a) 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). (b) A variety of Sorghum vulgare, grown for its saccharine juice; the Chinese sugar cane.

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