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sorghumsor‧ghum /ˈsɔːɡəm $ ˈsɔːr-/ noun [uncountable] sorghumOrigin: 1500-1600 Modern Latin, Italian sorgo ‘sorghum plant’ - But preliminary investigation by infrared spectroscopy of the lipids in the sorghum grains suggest the possibility of some cultivation.
- In the surrounding fields, men and women harvest maize, sorghum and groundnuts.
- On the land On about 20 acres a few miles from the farmstead grow the sunflower and sorghum used in Pipestem gifts.
- Reduced to one small plate of sorghum a day, all her children are suffering from diarrhoea.
- Staple food crops are maize, sorghum and wheat.
- The road cut through a vast cropland, with waist-high corn and sorghum nearby and waves of golden millet in the distance.
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