sorghon.

/ˈsɔːɡəʊ/

Forms: Also 1500s zorgo, 1700s sorgo.

Etymology: < French sorgho or Italian sorgo, also surgo, medieval Latin surgum, surcum, suricum (12–13th cent.), of unknown origin.

a. = sorghum n. 1b.

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reeda1398

canamell?a1425

sugar cane1568

sugar1593

sugar-reed1718

plant cane1721

sorgho1760

cane1781

ribbon cane1803

riband cane1811

imphee1857

sweet sorghum1859

sweet sorgho1861

sugar-grass1862

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broom corn1886

1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 5^v He is not hable..to finde breade of Zorgo (a verie vile graine).

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 327 Sorgo, Holcus.

1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iv. xx. 476 It may be worth stating that the sugar grass, or sorgho, has been cultivated with success as an experimental crop.

1868 Watts (at cited word) The glumes..and stems of sorgho contain red colouring-matters.

1893 G. Watt Dict. Econ. Products India VI. iii. 277 The Sorgho, which is mainly cultivated on account of sugar.

attributive.1862 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. (ed. 2) III. ii. §1. 74 Cane Sugar..is also contained in..the ripe sorgho grass.

b. sweet sorgho n. = sorghum n. 1b.

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