sorghum
1
7.7
- noun
- /ˈsɔrɡəm/
:
jarabe de sorgo
- You don't get perfect teeth eating sorghum syrup and hoecake.
- sorghum syrup
- sorghum molasses
- sweet sorghum
Examples
-
The objectives of the grant include producing two crops high in biomass: energy cane and sweet sorghum for biofuels and biochemicals.
Blog text (8) -
The featured crops were energy cane and sweet sorghum, both high in biomass for use in producing biofuels and biochemicals.
Blog text (8) -
He said sweet sorghum offers both sugar and cellulosic potential.
Blog text (12) -
"Some 12 percent of current U.S. grain sorghum production goes into biofuel production, but Buchanan said sweet sorghum may offer even more opportunity.
Blog text (12) -
It was a gallon bucket of fresh homemade sorghum molasses, and he knew the answer at once, long before she finished speaking: "Somebody from Mr. Edmond's place sent it to you."
Fiction book (1999) -
Through cooperative research with USDA and the Department of Energy, researchers are looking for better sweet sorghum hybrids with drought tolerance, pest resistance, and low lignin content.
Blog text (12) -
In all those thirty-four years of marriage, there was something wrong every blessed morning of the world: the eggs were too done, the cornbread was too soggy, the damned sorghum molasses that I bought in a jar at Alford's store was too slow or too runny, and even that was my fault.
Fiction book (1991) -
He had to have three kinds of meat, scratch biscuits and gravy, grits, eggs, fried potatoes, cornbread, buttermilk, and sorghum molasses every morning.
Fiction book (1991) -
I like to use sorghum syrup as a natural sweetener in my pancakes.
-
The recipe calls for sorghum to enhance the flavor of the barbecue sauce.
Synonyms
A thick sweet syrup made from the juice of a tall plant like corn used like sugar
Compounds
- Specialized
1
6.1
A tall plant grown for small edible seeds used for food or animal feed
- Specialized
A group of tropical grass plants that include crops grown for grain and animal feed
- Specialized
A wild grass that grows like a weed in parts of Africa and other tropical areas
- Specialized
A tall grass that grows back each year, used to feed animals and often a harmful weed
A thick sweet syrup made from the juice of a tall plant like corn used like sugar
- Specialized
A grain plant like corn with very large soft white grains from Sudan
- Specialized
A grain plant with dry stalks and small hard seeds grown in dry areas
- Specialized
A tall grass with long stiff flower clusters used to make brooms and brushes
- Specialized
A grain plant like corn grown for people and animals that can grow in dry places
- Specialized
A plant grown in West Africa for grain used to make porridge and bread
How Sweet
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sorghum also names a sweet syrup made from the juice of the same plant, and this use of the name follows the Italian sorgo and older Arabic and African words for the plant. That's why sorghum can mean both the grain plant and the sweet syrup you get from it.