sorghum
Noun
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Economically important Old World tropical cereal grass (synset 112157637)
is a type of: millet - any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusinesubtypes:
- 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
belongs to: genus sorghum, sorghum - annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses: sorghum -
Annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses: sorghum (synset 112157461)
is a type of: liliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seedmember holonym: sorghum - economically important Old World tropical cereal grassbelongs to: family graminaceae, family gramineae, family poaceae, graminaceae, gramineae, grass family, poaceae - the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar canesame as: genus sorghum
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Made from juice of sweet sorghum (synset 107876079)
same as: sorghum molasses
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