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单词 broom corn
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broom cornn.

Etymology: < (in U.S.) broom n. + (Indian) corn n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbroom corn.
The American name of the Common Millet, Sorghum vulgare, of which the panicles are made into brooms and stiff brushes; also the Sorghum saccharatum or Sugar Millet of the East.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > millet > Indian millet > Indian millet plant or panicle
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millet1548
Saracen's corn1585
sorghum1597
Guinea corn1697
whisk1757
broom-straw1785
kaffir corn1785
jowari1800
jowar1801
chicken corna1817
broom corn1819
mabela1824
cholum1858
Texas millet1858
dura1882
pearl millet1887
kaoliang1904
proso1907
milo1920
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > plants yielding sugar or syrup > [noun] > sugar-cane
reeda1398
canamell?a1425
sugar cane1568
sugar1593
sugar-reed1718
plant cane1721
sorgho1760
cane1781
ribbon cane1803
riband cane1811
imphee1857
sweet sorghum1859
sweet sorgho1861
sugar-grass1862
plant1866
broom corn1886
1819 W. Cobbett Year's Resid. U.S.A. iii. 414 I have Broom-Corn seed-stems enough to make fifty thousand such brushes.
1861 G. F. Berkeley Eng. Sportsman xxiv. 410 The Americans called them Broom corn.
1886 Echo 25 Sept. 4/2 Broom Bread..The latest novelty..is an American loaf made of broom corn flour.
1886 A. H. Church Food-grains of India 85 Broom corn..is cultivated in some parts of Northern India..on account of the sugar which can be extracted from the stems.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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