单词 | broom corn |
释义 | broom cornn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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 millc1450 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). < n.1819 |
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