[sor.ghum] n [NL, fr. It sorgo, fr. (assumed) VL Syricum (granum), lit., Syrian grain] (1597) 1: any of an economically important genus (Sorghum) of Old World tropical grasses similar to Indian corn in habit but with the spikelets in pairs on a hairy rachis; esp: any of various cultivars (as grain sorghum or sorgo) derived from a wild form (S. bicolor syn. S. vulgare)
2: syrup from the juice of a sorgo that resembles cane syrup
3: something cloyingly sentimental