sorghum
noun
a cereal grass, Sorghum bicolor (orS. vulgare ), having broad, cornlike leaves and a tall, pithy stem bearing the grain in a dense terminal cluster.
sorghums
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pluralof sorghum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Production figures given in the report included: Wheat 840,000,000 bushels Rice 38,600,000 bushels Cotton 14,486,000 bales Corn, oats, barley and grain sorghums 90,000,000 tons Tobacco 1,500,000,000 lbs.
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Its purview was broadened from grains, sorghums and flax to include rice, mill feeds, butter, eggs, potatoes and, more important, cotton.
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Department of Agriculture pays him $14.7 million a year to store surplus wheat, corn and grain sorghums bought from his and other farms.
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The current year, however, provided less crops than 1922 in wheat, rye, rice, clover seed, grain sorghums, broom corn, cranberries, peaches and pears.
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According to Ball, the sorghums fall into the following classes:—
From Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by John Andreas Widtsoe
