| sorghum | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. sorghum | economically important Old World tropical cereal grass. |
| ~ millet | any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine. |
| ~ genus sorghum, sorghum | annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses: sorghum. |
| ~ great millet, kaffir, kaffir corn, kafir corn, sorghum bicolor | 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, evergreen millet, johnson grass, means grass, sorghum halepense | 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. |
| ~ broomcorn, sorghum vulgare technicum | tall grasses grown for the elongated stiff-branched panicle used for brooms and brushes. |
| n. (plant) | 2. genus sorghum, sorghum | annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses: sorghum. |
| ~ liliopsid genus, monocot genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed. |
| ~ family graminaceae, family gramineae, family poaceae, graminaceae, gramineae, grass family, poaceae | the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane. |
| ~ sorghum | economically important Old World tropical cereal grass. |
| n. (food) | 3. sorghum, sorghum molasses | made from juice of sweet sorghum. |
| ~ sirup, syrup | a thick sweet sticky liquid. |
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