sorghum

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cereal, Sorghum genus and species, the grains of which are cultivated to make flour and feed cattle. Almost all cultivated ones as well as some wild ones belong to the species Sorghum bicolor (syn. Sorghum vulgare). countable,uncountable
    — 1936, Harry Nelson Vinall, Joseph Charlworth Stephens, John Holmes Martin, Identification, History, and Distribution of Common Sorghum Varieties, US Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin No. 506, page 2, The sorghum crop has four uses — forage, grain, sirup, and industrial (such as the manufacture of brooms, wallboard, etc.).
  2. Sorghum syrup. Southern-US,countable,uncountable

词形变化

sorghums plural sorgum alternative sourgum alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
sorghum downy mildew sorghum midge sorghum syrup sorghum molasses sweet sorghum sorghum rum sorghum whiskey sorghum whisky yellow sorghum stunt
相关词
sorgolactone

词源

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).
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