GRAIN SORGHUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grain sorghum mean? 

• GRAIN SORGHUM (noun)
  The noun GRAIN SORGHUM has 1 sense:

1. any of several sorghums cultivated primarily for grain

  Familiarity information: GRAIN SORGHUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAIN SORGHUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several sorghums cultivated primarily for grain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("grain sorghum" is a kind of...):

sorghum (economically important Old World tropical cereal grass)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grain sorghum"):

doura; dourah; durra; Egyptian corn; Guinea corn; Indian millet (sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa)

federita; feterita; Sorghum vulgare caudatum (a Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grains)

hegari (Sudanese sorghums having white seeds; one variety grown in southwestern United States)

kaoliang (sorghums of China and Manchuria having small white or brown grains (used for food) and dry pithy stalks (used for fodder, fuel and thatching))

milo; milo maize (small drought-resistant sorghums having large yellow or whitish grains)

shallu; Sorghum vulgare rosburghii (sorghum having slender dry stalks and small hard grains; introduced into United States from India)