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• a variation of sorgo.

sorgho

American  

[sawr-goh] / ˈsɔr goʊ /

noun

• sorghos
  plural

1. a variant of sorgo.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• sorghos
  plural

Example Sentences

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sorgho

Some nine years back there was found to be a carmine colouring matter in most parts of the Chinese sorgho, chiefly in the unpressed stem.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter

The former enters largely into the composition of the sugar-cane, the beetroot, the sugar-maple, the sorgho grass, pumpkins, carrots, and a great variety of other plants.

From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Sir Charles Alexander Cameron

Now, in this country, barren of all cultivation, they could not depend upon the tapioca, the sorgho, the maize, and the fruits, which formed the vegetable food of the native tribes.

From Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen by Jules Verne

The food, consisting of goat's flesh or mutton, vegetables, tapioca, sorgho, and the fruits of the country, was sufficient.

From Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen by Jules Verne

At this Escuela normal we likewise found the sorgho, or Chinese sugar-cane, in course of cultivation with great success.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer