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GENUS SORGHUM
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses: sorghum
Synonyms:
genus Sorghum; Sorghum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Sorghum" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "genus Sorghum"):
sorghum (economically important Old World tropical cereal grass)
Holonyms ("genus Sorghum" is a member of...):
family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)
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