Meaning & use
Sorgo
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A variety of sorghum grown primarily for its sweet juice, used to make syrup, rather than for grain.
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Farmers pressed the sorgo stalks to extract the sweet syrup.
Sorgo was once a common crop across the American South before sugar became cheap.
A note on using this word
Sorgo is a variant spelling of 'sorgho,' related to sorghum, and was historically important for producing molasses-like syrup.
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sweet sorghumsorgho
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