sugarcane

noun

1. juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice

• Syn: ↑sugar cane

• Hypernyms: ↑cane

• Part Holonyms: ↑sugar cane, ↑Saccharum officinarum

2. tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar

• Syn: ↑sugar cane, ↑Saccharum officinarum

• Hypernyms: ↑gramineous plant, ↑graminaceous plant

• Hyponyms: ↑noble cane

• Member Holonyms: ↑Saccharum, ↑genus Saccharum

• Part Meronyms: ↑sugar cane

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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun

1. : a stout tall perennial grass that is usually considered to constitute a species (Saccharum officinarum) but is known only as a cultigen or escape in warm or tropical regions, occurs in distinct forms with characteristic qualities and different chromosome numbers and possibly constitutes a hybrid complex, and has flat 2-ranked leaves, many-jointed stalks, and a large terminal flower cluster — see noble cane, sugar 1

2. : sugarcane plants

a plantation of sugarcane

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/shoog"euhr kayn'/, n.

a tall grass, Saccharum officinarum, of tropical and warm regions, having a stout, jointed stalk, and constituting the chief source of sugar.

Also, sugarcane.

[1560-70; SUGAR + CANE]

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sugˈarcane or sugar cane noun

A tall woody grass (Saccharum officinarum) of tropical and semitropical regions, cultivated in the West Indies, the southern USA, Australia, and elsewhere, one of the chief sources of sugar

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Main Entry: ↑sugar