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Sorghum

Sorghum

Sorghum
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In the News . . .

Exploring the Stone Age Pantry -- EurekAlert (17 December 2009)

Stone Age Pantry: Archaeologist Unearths Earliest Evidence of Modern Humans Using Wild Grains and Tubers for Food -- ScienceDaily (18 December 2009)

sorghum
NOUN:  
1. a cereal grass, Sorghum bicolor (or S. vulgare), having broad, cornlike leaves and a tall, pithy stem bearing the grain in a dense terminal cluster.
2. the syrup made from sorgo
ETYMOLOGY:  

1590–1600; < NL < It sorgo (see sorgo )

1750–60; < It < VL *syricum (granum) Syrian (grain), neut. of L Syricus (masc.) of Syria; see -ic

1597, "Indian millet," from Mod.L. Sorghum, the genus name, from It. sorgo "a tall cereal grass," probably from M.L. surgum, suricum (12c.), perhaps a variant of L. syricum "Syrian," as in Syricum (gramen) "(grass) of Syria," from Syria, a possible source of the plant or its grain in ancient times.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
VARIANT FORMS:   sorgo, sorgho, sweet sorghum, sugar sorghum
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Sorghum

Sorghum.

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
  Angiosperms
  Monocots
  Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Sorghum
Species:
Binomial name

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USA Wheat cent (reverse).
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Meyers Blitz-Lexikon, Leipzig, 1932.

Meyers Blitz-Lexikon, Leipzig, 1932

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"Sorghum Mill, Brown County, Indiana."  Jack Hubbard (American, 20th century), oil on canvas.

"Sorghum Mill, Brown County, Indiana"
Jack Hubbard
(American, 20th century)
oil on canvas

 

A field of hybrid sorghum.

A field of hybrid sorghum

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Sorgho,

Sorgho

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