grain sorghum
Noun
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Any of several sorghums cultivated primarily for grain (synset 112158086)
is a type of: sorghum - economically important Old World tropical cereal grasssubtypes:
- 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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