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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:

Nouns denoting plants

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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