sorghum

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  1. noun An Old World grass (Sorghum bicolor), several varieties of which are widely cultivated as grain and forage or as a source of syrup.
  2. noun Syrup made from the juice of this plant.

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  • Known as milo, durra, or broomcorn, sorghum is a grass species that can grow up to five metres tall and is extremely resistant to aridity and hot conditions. —  EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
  • (HZM) are analysing the genes of sorghum, the first plant of African origin whose genome has been sequenced. —  EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
  • "The sequence of sorghum genome will provide us a better understanding on genes that make sorghum, as compared to other cereals, more drought tolerant." —  The Financial Express
  • Cassava, yams, plantains, corn, rice, peanuts, millet, and sorghum are the basic foodstuffs.
  • Introduction Results and Discussion • Grain sorghum is an important crop for Kansas agriculture; Table 1. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
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  1. New Latin Sorghum, genus name, from Italian sorgo, a tall cereal grass, probably from Medieval Latin surgum, perhaps variant of Vulgar Latin *syricum, from neuter of Latin Syricus, Syrian, from Syria, Syria.

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  1. Formerly also sorgum, also sometimes sorgo, sorgho, French sorgho, from Spanish Portuguese sorgo = Italian sorgo, surgo; from New Latin sorgum, sorghum, from Middle Latin surgum, surcum, suricum, Indian millet, sorghum; prob. of East Indian origin.
 

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/ˈsɔrgəm/
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