HOW TO PRONOUNCE
sorghum
/ˈsɔɹɡəm/
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What does sorghum mean?
noun
- 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.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsɔɹɡəm/
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It would come out slowly and reluctantly, so that I would have to wait a long while to get a little sorghum.
If you cut and wilt the young sorghum, or if it is fed sparingly with hay, etc., it becomes innocent of injury.
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After the mush we had fresh bread and sorghum molasses, and coffee with the cake that had been kept warm in the feathers.
The vegetable barrier, new to my prisoners, namely, the sorghum cylinder, also opens with a neat orifice, which might have been the work of a punch.