SORGHUM

sorghum, sorghum molasses

(noun) made from juice of sweet sorghum

sorghum

(noun) economically important Old World tropical cereal grass

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

sorghum (countable and uncountable, plural sorghums)

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

(Southern US) Sorghum syrup.

Synonyms

• (cereal): guinea corn (West Africa); Kafir corn (South Africa); mtama (East Africa); durra (Sudan); juar, jowar, cholam (India); kaoliang (China); milo (United States)

Coordinate terms

Source: Wiktionary

Sor"ghum, n. Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition