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SORGHUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made from juice of sweet sorghum
Synonyms:
sorghum; sorghum molasses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("sorghum" is a kind of...):
sirup; syrup (a thick sweet sticky liquid)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses: sorghum
Synonyms:
genus Sorghum; Sorghum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("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 "Sorghum"):
sorghum (economically important Old World tropical cereal grass)
Holonyms ("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)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Economically important Old World tropical cereal grass
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("sorghum" is a kind of...):
millet (any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sorghum"):
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)
Holonyms ("sorghum" is a member of...):
genus Sorghum; Sorghum (annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses: sorghum)
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