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BROOMCORN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does broomcorn mean? 

BROOMCORN (noun)
  The noun BROOMCORN has 1 sense:

1. tall grasses grown for the elongated stiff-branched panicle used for brooms and brushesplay

  Familiarity information: BROOMCORN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BROOMCORN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Tall grasses grown for the elongated stiff-branched panicle used for brooms and brushes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

broomcorn; Sorghum vulgare technicum

Hypernyms ("broomcorn" is a kind of...):

sorghum (economically important Old World tropical cereal grass)


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