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Sorghum vs Sorgho - What's the difference?

sorghum | sorgho |

As nouns the difference between sorghum and sorgho

is that sorghum is a cereal, species: Sorghum vulgare or Sorghum bicolor, the grains of which are used to make flour and as cattle feed while sorgho is sorghum.

sorghum

English

(wikipedia sorghum)

Noun

  • A cereal, or Sorghum bicolor , the grains of which are used to make flour and as cattle feed.
  • * 1936', Harry Nelson Vinall, Joseph Charlworth Stephens, John Holmes Martin, ''Identification, History, and Distribution of Common '''Sorghum Varieties , US Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin No. 506, page 2,
    • The sorghum crop has four uses — forage, grain, sirup, and industrial (such as the manufacture of brooms, wallboard, etc.).
  • * 1978 , US Department of Agriculture, Watch out for witchweed, a serious pest of corn, sorghum, and other crops , Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Program Number 1212, unnumbered page,
    • Witchweed (Striga spp. ) is a parasitic plant that attacks corn, sorghum , sugarcane, rice, and more than 60 different species of the grass family.
  • * 2008 , Lamissa Diakité, Amadou Sidibé, Melinda Smale, Mikkel Grum, Seed Value Chains for Sorghum and Millet in Mali: A State-based System in Transition , International Food Policy Research Institute, Discussion Paper 00749, page 2,
    • Archaeological evidence suggests that economies based on cattle, goats, sorghum , and pearl millet were established in this region between 5,000 and 3,000 years ago (Smith 1998).

    Synonyms

    * (cereal) guinea corn (West Africa); Kafir corn (South Africa); mtama (East Africa); durra (Sudan); juar, jowar, cholam (India); kaoliang (China); milo (United States)

    Derived terms

    * sorghum midge

    sorgho

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) sorghum
  • * {{quote-book, year=1818, author=J. B. Henry Savigny and Alexander Correard, title=Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It is by manuring the land, with the dung of their cattle, that the Negroes raise pretty good crops of sorgho . }} ----