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GREAT MILLET [1 record]

Record 1 2010-09-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Grain Growing
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

Agricultural food products (cereals).

OBS

sorghum; guinea corn; great millet; Egyptian millet; kaffir corn; dari; milo; waxy milo; jowar; cholain; cholam; milomaize; kaoliang; kadiang; feteritas; shallu; broomcorn : terms standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Culture des céréales
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
DEF

sorghos : Produits agricoles alimentaires (céréales) surtout cultivés en Afrique.

OBS

Sorghos cultivés appartenant à la tribu des andropogonées et au genre Sorghum.

OBS

sorgo : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2006).

OBS

sorgho; gros mil : termes normalisés par l'ISO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
  • Cultivo de cereales
Entrada(s) universal(es)
CONT

El sorgo o zahína (Sorghum bicolor) es una hierba perteneciente a la familia de las gramíneas (Poaceae), cuyas semillas se utilizan para hacer harina y como forraje. Es un cultivo alimenticio importante en África, América Central, y Asia Meridional [...] El género Sorghum se caracteriza por presentar espiguillas que nacen de a pares. El sorgo se trata como planta anual, aunque es hierba perenne y en los trópicos puede cosecharse varias veces al año.

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