grain sorghum

noun

any of several varieties of sorghum, as durra or milo, having starchy seeds, grown for grain and forage.

First recorded in 1915–20

The grain sorghum crop is vulnerable to damage by crows and it is ripening in the autumn as the crow population is building up.

The two principal food items taken by crows in the winter of 1953 were grain sorghum and sunflower seed.

Growers of grain sorghum and, locally, growers of corn and watermelons, sustain serious damage from crows.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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