grain sorghum
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grain sorghum
n.
See milo.
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grain′ sor`ghum
n.
any of several varieties of sorghum, as durra or milo, grown for grain and forage.
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Noun | 1. | ![]() sorghum - economically important Old World tropical cereal grass doura, dourah, durra, Egyptian corn, Guinea corn, Indian millet - sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa federita, feterita, Sorghum vulgare caudatum - 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 shallu, Sorghum vulgare rosburghii - sorghum having slender dry stalks and small hard grains; introduced into United States from India |
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