[Tamil.] A grass, the Indian millet or Guinea corn (Sorghum vulgare), largely grown for food in India and other parts of the East.
1858. Drury, Useful Pl. of Ind., (1873), 400.
1886. A. H. Church, Food Grains Ind., 80. In Madras in 1875–76 more than 41/2 million acres were under cholum.
