reed vs sorghum

reed

noun
  • Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water. 

  • A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving. 

  • A piece of whalebone or similar for stiffening the skirt or waist of a woman's dress. 

  • The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet. 

  • A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed. 

  • Straw prepared for thatching a roof. 

  • Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it. 

  • Reeding. 

  • A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting. 

  • The hollow stem of these plants. 

verb
  • To mill or mint with reeding. 

  • To thatch. 

sorghum

noun
  • A cereal, Sorghum genus and species, the grains of which are cultivated to make flour and feed cattle. Almost all cultivated ones as well as some wild ones belong to the species Sorghum bicolor (syn. Sorghum vulgare). 

  • Sorghum syrup. 

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