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BROOMCORN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does broomcorn mean?
• BROOMCORN (noun)
The noun BROOMCORN has 1 sense:
1. tall grasses grown for the elongated stiff-branched panicle used for brooms and brushes
Familiarity information: BROOMCORN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall grasses grown for the elongated stiff-branched panicle used for brooms and brushes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
broomcorn; Sorghum vulgare technicum
Hypernyms ("broomcorn" is a kind of...):
sorghum (economically important Old World tropical cereal grass)
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