sorghum

/ˈsɔrgəm/

/ˈsɔgəm/

Other forms: sorghums

Definitions of sorghum

1. noun

   economically important Old World tropical cereal grass
   types:

   Sorghum bicolor, great millet, kaffir, kaffir corn, kafir corn

   important for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves

   grain sorghum

   any of several sorghums cultivated primarily for grain

   sorgho, sorgo, sugar sorghum, sweet sorghum

   any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup

   Aleppo grass, Johnson grass, Sorghum halepense, evergreen millet, means grass

   tall perennial grass that spreads by creeping rhizomes and is grown for fodder; naturalized in southern United States where it is a serious pest on cultivated land

   Sorghum vulgare technicum, broomcorn

   tall grasses grown for the elongated stiff-branched panicle used for brooms and brushes

   Egyptian corn, Guinea corn, Indian millet, doura, dourah, durra

   sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa

   Sorghum vulgare caudatum, federita, feterita

   a Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grains

   hegari

   Sudanese sorghums having white seeds; one variety grown in southwestern United States

   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

   Sorghum vulgare rosburghii, shallu

   sorghum having slender dry stalks and small hard grains; introduced into United States from India

   type of:

   millet

   any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
2. noun

   made from juice of sweet sorghum
   synonyms: sorghum molasses

   type of:

   sirup, syrup

   a thick sweet sticky liquid