sorghum
IPA: sˈɔrgʌm
noun
- A cereal, Sorghum genus and species, the grains of which are cultivated to make flour and feed cattle. Almost all cultivated ones as well as some wild ones belong to the species Sorghum bicolor (syn. Sorghum vulgare).
- (Southern US) Sorghum syrup.
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Examples of "sorghum" in Sentences
- Black soil and sweet brown sorghum from the every morning biscuits
- Which by the way is a term referring to a specific type of grain sorghum in the U.S.
- This company has a very cool story about how sorghum is much easier to grow than corn and doesn't have the husks that get stuck in your teeth!
- Now, Cornell researchers have cloned a novel aluminum-tolerant gene in sorghum and expect to have genetically engineered aluminum-tolerant sorghum lines by next year.
- Veracruz port grains imports were estimated at some 4.6 million tons in 1998\emdash mostly corn, wheat and sorghum from the United States\emdash compared to 3.3 million tons in 1997.
- The region's three top spellers went head-to-head for four more rounds until Wyoming Seminary seventh-grader Benjamin Hornung was done in by "sorghum" - a type of grass or a syrup from the juice of a sorgo.
- The region's three three top spellers went head-to-head for four more rounds until Wyoming Seminary seventh-grader Benjamin Hornung was done in by "sorghum" - a type of grass or a syrup from the juice of a sorgo.
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