Sorghum

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sorghum \Sor"ghum\, n. [NL., probably of Chinese origin.] (Bot.)
     (a) A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species,
         {Sorghum Halepense}, the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass
         (see {Johnson grass}), and {Sorghum vulgare}, the Indian
         millet (see {Indian millet}, under {Indian}).
     (b) A variety of {Sorghum vulgare}, grown for its saccharine


         juice; the Chinese sugar cane.
         [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sorghum
       n 1: economically important Old World tropical cereal grass
       2: made from juice of sweet sorghum [syn: {sorghum molasses}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "sorghum":
     ambrosia, artificial sweetener, blackstrap, calcium cyclamate,
     cane syrup, clover honey, comb honey, corn syrup, cyclamates,
     edulcoration, honey, honeycomb, honeydew, honeypot, maple syrup,
     molasses, nectar, saccharification, saccharin, sodium cyclamate,
     sugar, sugar-making, sugaring off, sweetener, sweetening, sweets,
     syrup, treacle