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Sorghums of China and Manchuria having small white or brown grains (used for food) and dry pithy stalks (used for fodder, fuel and thatching)
Answer for the clue "Sorghums of China and Manchuria having small white or brown grains (used for food) and dry pithy stalks (used for fodder, fuel and thatching) ", 8 letters:
kaoliang
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Kaoliang , Gaoliangjiu or sorghum wine is a strong distilled liquor of Chinese origin made from fermented sorghum . It is a type of unflavoured baijiu . The liquor originates from Dazhigu (大直沽, located east of Tianjin ), first appearing in the Ming Dynasty ...
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n. 1 A distilled alcoholic drink made from sorghum. 2 Any of various Chinese varieties of sorghum.
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n. sorghums of China and Manchuria having small white or brown grains (used for food) and dry pithy stalks (used for fodder, fuel and thatching)
Usage examples of kaoliang.
Chinese wine would be consumed, pots of kaoliang cooked with rice prepared, and those who had opium would divide with those who had none.
Kula said, his eyes reflective as he stared into his steaming kaoliang wine.
Boldbator, raising the nine-horsetail standard of Genghis Khan, and Kula, sipping kaoliang wine from a bladder, took positions on either side of them.
The head of the family, of course, was at the war in Manchuria, and quite likely at that very moment he was crouching in a field of kaoliang while the Japanese were firing shimose at him.