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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
sor·ghum       [sawr-guhm] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a cereal grass, Sorghum bicolor (or S. vulgare), having broad, cornlike leaves and a tall, pithy stem bearing the grain in a dense terminal cluster.
2.the syrup made from sorgo.
[Origin: 1590–1600; < NL < It sorgo (see sorgo)]
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sor·ghum       (sôr'gəm)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. An Old World grass (Sorghum bicolor), several varieties of which are widely cultivated as grain and forage or as a source of syrup.
  2. Syrup made from the juice of this plant.


[New Latin Sorghum, genus name, from Italian sorgo, a tall cereal grass, probably from Medieval Latin surgum, perhaps variant of Vulgar Latin *syricum, from neuter of Latin Syricus, Syrian, from Syria, Syria.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
sorghum 
1597, "Indian millet," from Mod.L. Sorghum, the genus name, from It. sorgo "a tall cereal grass," probably from M.L. surgum, suricum (12c.), perhaps a variant of L. syricum "Syrian," as in Syricum (gramen) "(grass) of Syria," from Syria, a possible source of the plant or its grain in ancient times.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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sorghum

noun
1. economically important Old World tropical cereal grass 
2. annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses: sorghum [syn: genus Sorghum] 
3. made from juice of sweet sorghum 

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Sorghum

Sor"ghum\, n. [NL., probably of Chinese origin.] (Bot.) (a) A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species, Sorghum Halepense, the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass (see Johnson grass), and S. vulgare, the Indian millet (see Indian millet, under Indian). (b) A variety of Sorghum vulgare, grown for its saccharine juice; the Chinese sugar cane.

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