| NOUN | plant | grain sorghum | any of several sorghums cultivated primarily for grain |
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| Meaning | Any of several sorghums cultivated primarily for grain. | |
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| Narrower | durra, doura, dourah, Egyptian corn, Indian millet, Guinea corn | sorghums of dry regions / regions of Asia and North Africa |
| feterita, federita, Sorghum vulgare caudatum | A Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grains | |
| hegari | Sudanese sorghums having white seeds | |
| kaoliang | sorghums of China and Manchuria having small white or brown grains (used for food) and dry pithy stalks (used for fodder, fuel and thatching) | |
| milo, milo maize | small drought-resistant sorghums having large yellow or whitish grains | |
| shallu, Sorghum vulgare rosburghii | sorghum having slender dry stalks and small hard grains | |
| Broader | sorghum | economically important Old World tropical cereal grass |
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