Word Meanings - SORGHUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species, Sorghum Halepense, the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass , and S. vulgare, the Indian millet . A variety of Sorghum vulgare, grown for its saccharine juice; the Chinese sugar cane.

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• SUGARPLUM
  A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• CHINESE
  Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. Chinese paper. See India paper, under India. -- Chinese wax, a snowy-wgite, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccidæ especially Coccus
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• ARABIAN
  Of or pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants. Arabian bird, the phenix. Shak.
• GRASSLESS
  Destitute of grass.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• SORGHUM
  A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species, Sorghum Halepense, the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass , and S. vulgare, the Indian millet . A variety of Sorghum vulgare, grown for its saccharine juice; the Chinese sugar cane.
• JUICE
  The characteristic fluid of any vegetable or animal substance; the sap or part which can be expressed from fruit, etc.; the fluid part which separates from meat in cooking. An animal whose juices are unsound. Arbuthnot. The juice of July flowers.
• SUGARED
  Sweetened. "The sugared liquor." Spenser.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• SUGARY
  1. Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet. Spenser. 2. Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.
• JOHNSONIANISM
  A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson.
• LIMITARY
  1. Placed at the limit, as a guard. "Proud limitary cherub." Milton. 2. Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc. "The limitary ocean." Trench. The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. De Quincey.
• JOHNSONESE
  The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. E. Everett.
• PROPERLY
  1. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton. 2. Individually; after one's own manner. Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. Chaucer.
• GRASSPLOT
  A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn. "Here on this grassplot." Shak.
• SUGARLESS
  Without sugar; free from sugar.
• ALEPPO GRASS
  One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• INDO-CHINESE
  Of or pertaining to Indo-China (i. e., Farther India, or India beyond the Ganges).
• FULL-GROWN
  Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell.
• WATER GRASS
  The water cress. (more info) A tall march perennial grass of the southern United States and the American tropics. Manna grass. The grass Chloris elegans. Velvet grass.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• SISAL GRASS; SISAL HEMP
  The prepared fiber of the Agave Americana, or American aloe, used for cordage; -- so called from Sisal, a port in Yucatan. See Sisal hemp, under Hemp.