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 ̷ ̷\ noun1. : 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
Useful english dictionary. 2012.