sorghum
/ˈsɔ(ɹ).ɡəm/
sorghum noun: a cereal, Sorghum genus and species, the grains of which are cultivated to make flour and feed cattle. Almost all cultivated ones as well as some wild ones belong to the species Sorghum bicolor (syn. Sorghum vulgare).
Noun
sorghum (countable and uncountable, plural sorghums)
- A cereal, Sorghum genus and species, the grains of which are cultivated to make flour and feed cattle. Almost all cultivated ones as well as some wild ones belong to the species Sorghum bicolor (syn. Sorghum vulgare).
- The sorghum crop has four uses — forage, grain, sirup, and industrial (such as the manufacture of brooms, wallboard, etc.).1936, Harry Nelson Vinall, Joseph Charlworth Stephens, John Holmes Martin, Identification, History, and Distribution of Common Sorghum Varieties, US Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin No....
- Witchweed (Striga spp.) is a parasitic plant that attacks corn, sorghum, sugarcane, rice, and more than 60 different species of the grass family.1978, US Department of Agriculture, Watch out for witchweed, a serious pest of corn, sorghum, and other crops, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Program Number 1212, unnumbered page
- Synonyms:
- guinea corn, kafir corn, mtama, durra, juar, jowar, cholam, kaoliang, milo, feterita
- Sorghum syrup.
sorghum meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
sorghum in Hindi
- cereal
- ज्वार jvār
sorghum in Tamil
- cereal
- சோளம் cōḷam
sorghum in Marathi
- cereal
- ज्वारी jvārī
sorghum in Urdu
- cereal
- جوار jvār
More languagesFewer languages
- sorghum in Bengali
- জোয়ার jōẇar
- sorghum in Telugu
- జొన్న jonna
- sorghum in Malayalam
- ചോളം cōḷaṁ
- sorghum in Kannada
- ಜೋಳ jōḷa
- sorghum in Punjabi
- ਜਵਾਰ javār
- sorghum in Gujarati
- જુવાર juvār
- sorghum in Assamese
- জোৱাৰ züar
- sorghum in Tagalog
- batad
- sorghum in Arabic
- ذُرَة ḏura, سرغوم
- sorghum in Malay
- betari
- sorghum in Indonesian
- sorgum
- sorghum in Persian
- سورگوم sorgom, جواری jovâri, ذرتخوشه zorrat-xuše, گاورس gâvars
- sorghum in Vietnamese
- mộc mạch, cao lương
- Sindhi
- جوئر jor
- Dhivehi
- ދޮނަޅަ donaḷa
Examples of sorghum in a sentence
- I went away back to my kidhood and remembered the hot biscuit sopped in sorghum and bacon gravy with partiality and respect.
- What corn and sorghum we'd raised when I was a kid had survived on our scant rainfall.
- Chinese black vinegar is made by fermenting a mixture of rice, wheat, and millet or sorghum.
Synonyms of sorghum
- guinea corn
- kafir corn
- mtama
- durra
- juar
- jowar
- cholam
- kaoliang
- milo
- feterita
Forms of sorghum
| plural | sorghums |
|---|---|
| alternative form | sorgum |
| alternative form | sourgum |
Origin of sorghum
From New Latin genus name Sorghum, from Italian sorgo, from Vulgar Latin *syricum (“Syrian”), from Sȳricus. Doublet of the synonyms sorgho (via French) and sorgo (via Italian).
Words formed from sorghum
Phrases with sorghum
Questions about sorghum
- What does sorghum mean?
- Sorghum means a cereal, Sorghum genus and species, the grains of which are cultivated to make flour and feed cattle. Almost all cultivated ones as well as some wild ones belong to the species Sorghum bicolor (syn. Sorghum vulgare).
- What is sorghum in Hindi?
- Sorghum in Hindi is ज्वार (jvār). See Sorghum meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sorghum?
- Sorghum is a noun.
- How do you pronounce sorghum?
- Sorghum is pronounced /ˈsɔ(ɹ).ɡəm/.
- What is the plural of sorghum?
- The plural of sorghum is sorghums.
Words near sorghum in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sorghum (page history and authors); জোয়ার (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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