Sorghum vulgare technicum
- noun
- Specialized
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sorgo técnico
- Farmers in the region plant Sorghum vulgare technicum to supply material for traditional handcrafted brooms.
Examples
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In the workshop, she explained how dried Sorghum vulgare technicum is bound together to make sturdy brushes.
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Farmers often grow Sorghum vulgare technicum for its strong fibers.
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The museum features a display on the uses of Sorghum vulgare technicum in 19th-century household tools.
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Have you seen the Sorghum vulgare technicum fields this season?
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Farmers in the region plant Sorghum vulgare technicum to supply material for traditional handcrafted brooms.
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In the workshop, she explained how dried Sorghum vulgare technicum is bound together to make sturdy brushes.
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The museum features a display on the uses of Sorghum vulgare technicum in 19th-century household tools.
Synonyms
A tall grain plant with stiff seed heads that people use to make brooms and brushes
Surface Forms
Morphology
sorghum + vulgare + technicum
This is a Latin scientific name (binomial with an additional epithet) rather than a compositional English phrase; the constituents 'vulgare' and 'technicum' are not English words (dictionary entries missing) and their meanings are not accessible to an average B1 learner. Knowing 'sorghum' might indicate a type of grass, but the specific horticultural meaning ('used in making brooms and brushes') cannot be derived from the parts, so the expression is idiomatic/taxonomic and unpredictable.
Etymology
Sorghum vulgare technicum is a tall grass whose dried, stiff flower clusters were tied together to make brooms and brushes. Because people grew and used this grass for broom bristles, its name now points to the plant 'used to make brooms and brushes'.
