cholumn.
A grass, the Indian millet or Guinea corn ( Sorghum vulgare), largely grown for food in India and other parts of the East.
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1858 H. Drury Useful Plants India 413.
1886 A. H. Church Food-grains of India 80 In Madras in 1875–76 more than 4½ million acres were under cholum.
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