grain sorghum

grain sorghum

n. See milo.

grain′ sor`ghum

n. any of several varieties of sorghum, as durra or milo, grown for grain and forage.

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grain sorghum - any of several sorghums cultivated primarily for grainsorghum - economically important Old World tropical cereal grassdoura, dourah, durra, Egyptian corn, Guinea corn, Indian millet - sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africafederita, feterita, Sorghum vulgare caudatum - a Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grainshegari - Sudanese sorghums having white seeds; one variety grown in southwestern United Stateskaoliang - sorghums of China and Manchuria having small white or brown grains (used for food) and dry pithy stalks (used for fodder, fuel and thatching)milo, milo maize - small drought-resistant sorghums having large yellow or whitish grainsshallu, Sorghum vulgare rosburghii - sorghum having slender dry stalks and small hard grains; introduced into United States from India