sorghum

Meaning

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).
Sorghum syrup.

dura

millet

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɔ(ɹ).ɡəm/

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).