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Sorghum Common

Sorghum has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

economically important Old World tropical cereal grass

"Farmers in the semi-arid regions rely on sorghum as a hardy, drought-resistant crop that thrives where other grains fail."

2

annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses: sorghum

"After a long drought, the farmer planted sorghum in his fields because it thrives better than other crops in the hot climate."

3

made from juice of sweet sorghum

"After harvesting the tall green stalks, the farmer pressed them to extract the syrupy juice for making traditional molasses."

4

A cereal, Sorghum bicolor (syn. Sorghum vulgare) the grains of which are used to make flour and as cattle feed.

"The farmer harvested the sorghum late last month so that the dried grains could be ground into flour or fed directly to his herd."

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
millet monocot genus syrup
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
great millet grain sorghum sorgo Johnson grass broomcorn
Rhyming Words
hum shum rhum chum jhum nahum bochum zythum ainhum humhum ho hum beechum anethum mitchum ketchum beachum meachum new chum bum chum amianthum
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