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Definition of Kaoliang
1. Noun. Sorghums of China and Manchuria having small white or brown grains (used for food) and dry pithy stalks (used for fodder, fuel and thatching).
Definition of Kaoliang
1. Noun. A distilled alcoholic drink made from sorghum. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Kaoliang
1. an Asian sorghum [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kaoliang
Literary usage of Kaoliang
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manchuria, Land of Opportunities by Minami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha (1922)
"Recently the cultivation of kaoliang has given place to that of beans in ...
In South Manchuria 26.6% of the cultivated area is devoted to kaoliang,% to ..."
2. Agricultural Economics: A Selection of Materials in which Economic by Edwin Griswold Nourse (1916)
"At Cottonwood in 1912, kaoliang yielded an average of 23.7 bushels per acre in
... Every season since kaoliang was introduced there have been drouth periods ..."
3. Journal of the American Asiatic Association by American Asiatic Association (1909)
"kaoliang is the food staple of Manchuria, and bears the same relative value in
the food economy ... No part of the kaoliang plant is allowed to go to waste. ..."
4. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"On these were then placed, in alternate layers, kaoliang and sacks of clay. ...
The mattress so formed was again added to with kaoliang and clay, ..."
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