sorghum
Americannoun
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sorghums
plural
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a cereal grass, Sorghum bicolor (orS. vulgare ), having broad, cornlike leaves and a tall, pithy stem bearing the grain in a dense terminal cluster.
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the syrup made from sorgo.
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of sorghum
1590–1600; < New Latin < Italian sorgo ( see sorgo)
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Corn remained supported by strong demand and tighter supplies in Brazil and the U.S., while sorghum and barley increased mainly due to spillover effects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Trump is likely to push China to purchase more U.S. farm products including beef, soybeans, sorghum, and corn.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
In the past, he has given equipment, from boats to a machine used to grind sorghum - a staple grain in Africa and Asia.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2025
Corn farmers across the Midwest are experimenting with drought-resistant millets, while growers in Sub-Saharan Africa are embracing varieties of sorghum and legumes that require less water than other grains.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2025
Hanging over it was the sweetness of sorghum molasses coming to the boil.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Department of Agriculture pays him $14.7 million a year to store surplus wheat, corn and grain sorghums bought from his and other farms.
From Time Magazine Archive
To ease the pressure on prices, the Department of Agriculture canceled a July-August allocation of 6,740,000 bu. of corn for export and decided to substitute wheat, barley and grain sorghums.
From Time Magazine Archive
The situation in Texas was typical: there was enough storage space to hold around 140 million bushels, but three-fifths of it was already filled with 1948 wheat and grain sorghums.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because of favorable weather and 47-million-ton carryover from surplus in earlier years, output of feed corn, oats, barley and grain sorghums will rise 6% to 213 million tons.
From Time Magazine Archive
No crops can be made to follow it with more advantage, however, than corn and the sorghums, or potatoes.
From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Thomas Shaw
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