sorghum
Betekenis (Engels)
- (countable, uncountable) 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).
- (Southern-US, countable, uncountable) Sorghum syrup.
Sinonieme
grain sorghum
guinea corn
rice plant
bulrush millet
broom-corn
chicken corn
Kaoliang
great millet
Egyptian corn
shallu
sorgho
Arabian millet
ambercane
shatter cane
shattercane
glutinous millet
kaffircorn
Vertalings
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ˈsɔ(ɹ).ɡəm/
Etimologie (Engels)
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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Oefen om " sorghum " en baie ander woorde en sinne in Engels .