NOUN | plant | sorghum | economically important Old World tropical cereal grass |
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plant | Sorghum, genus Sorghum | annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses | |
food | sorghum, sorghum molasses | made from juice of sweet sorghum |
Sounds | sao'rgahm | |
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Rhymes | abolitionism ... zirconium: 557 rhymes with ahm... |
Meaning | economically important Old World tropical cereal grass. | |
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Member of | genus Sorghum, Sorghum | annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses |
Narrower | Johnson grass, Aleppo grass, means grass, evergreen millet, Sorghum halepense | tall perennial grass that spreads by creeping rhizomes and is grown for fodder |
broomcorn, Sorghum vulgare technicum | tall grasses grown for the elongated stiff-branched panicle used for brooms and brushes | |
grain sorghum | Any of several sorghums cultivated primarily for grain | |
great millet, kaffir, kafir corn, kaffir corn, Sorghum bicolor | Important for human and animal food | |
sorgo, sorgho, sweet sorghum, sugar sorghum | Any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup | |
Broader | millet | Any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine |
Spanish | sorghum, sorgo | |
Catalan | sorgo |
Meaning | annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses: sorghum. | |
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Synonym | genus Sorghum | |
Member of | Gramineae, family Gramineae, Graminaceae, family Graminaceae, Poaceae, family Poaceae, grass family | The grasses |
Members | sorghum | economically important Old World tropical cereal grass |
Broader | monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
Spanish | genus sorghum | |
Catalan | genus sorghum |
Meaning | made from juice of sweet sorghum. | |
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Synonym | sorghum molasses | |
Broader | syrup, sirup | A thick sweet sticky liquid / liquid |
Spanish | melaza de sorgo, sorgo | |
Catalan | melca, sorgo |
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