Definition of Sorghum. Meaning of Sorghum. Synonyms of Sorghum

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Definition of Sorghum

Sorghum
Sorghum Sor"ghum, n. [NL., probably of Chinese origin.] (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.

Meaning of Sorghum from wikipedia

- Sorghum (/ˈsɔːrɡəm/) or broomcorn is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the gr**** family (Poaceae). Some of these species are grown as...
- Sorghum bicolor, commonly called sorghum (/ˈsɔːrɡəm/) and also known as great millet, broomcorn, guinea corn, durra, imphee, jowar, or milo, is a gr****...
- Look up Sorghum or sorghum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sorghum is a cultivated cereal. The genus Sorghum contains the crop and its wild relatives:...
- Sorghum × drummondii (Sudan gr****), is a hybrid-derived species of gr**** raised for forage and grain, native to tropical and subtropical regions of Eastern...
- Red Sorghum: A Novel of China (simplified Chinese: 红高粱家族; traditional Chinese: 紅高粱家族; pinyin: Hóng Gāoliáng Jiāzú; lit. 'red sorghum family') is a Chinese-language...
- Sweet sorghum is any of the many varieties of the sorghum gr**** whose stalks have a high sugar content. Sweet sorghum thrives better under drier and warmer...
- conditions. The term millet is sometimes understood to comprise sorghum. The annual harvest of sorghum is twice the amount of other millets.[citation needed] Of...
- Sorghum may refer to: Red Sorghum (novel), a 1986 Chinese novel by Mo Yan Red Sorghum (film), a 1987 Chinese film based on Mo Yan's novel Red Sorghum...
- Red Sorghum is a 1987 Chinese film about a young woman's life working in a distillery for sorghum liquor. It is based on the first two parts of the novel...
- Commercial sorghum is the cultivation and commercial exploitation of species of gr****es within the genus Sorghum (often S. bicolor, sometimes Sorghum arundinaceum)...