sorghum

Pronunciation: /ˈsɔ(ɹ).ɡəm/

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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

Etymology

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).

In classic literature

Semantic network

Broader (hypernyms)
millet
Narrower (hyponyms)
grain sorghum, great millet, sorgo, johnson grass, broomcorn

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