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sorghum

Definitions of sorghum
  1. noun
    any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
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    types:
    gierst, kafferkoren
    economically important Old World tropical cereal grass
    gierst, kafferkoren
    any of several sorghums cultivated primarily for grain
    type of:
    graan, graansoort, koren
    grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
  2. noun
    economically important Old World tropical cereal grass
    synonyms: gierst, kafferkoren
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    types:
    gierst, kafferkoren
    any of several sorghums cultivated primarily for grain
    negerkoren
    sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa
    type of:
    gierst, kafferkoren, pluimgierst
    any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
  3. noun
    any of several sorghums cultivated primarily for grain
    synonyms: gierst, kafferkoren
    see moresee less
    types:
    negerkoren
    sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa
    type of:
    gierst, kafferkoren
    economically important Old World tropical cereal grass
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