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sugar cane

noun

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

• Syn: ↑sugarcane

• Hypernyms: ↑cane

• Part Holonyms: ↑sugarcane, ↑Saccharum officinarum

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

• Syn: ↑sugarcane, ↑Saccharum officinarum

• Hypernyms: ↑gramineous plant, ↑graminaceous plant

• Hyponyms: ↑noble cane

• Member Holonyms: ↑Saccharum, ↑genus Saccharum

• Part Meronyms: ↑sugarcane

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ˈsugar cane [sugar cane sugar canes] noun uncountable

a tall tropical plant with thick ↑stems from which sugar is made

Useful english dictionary. 2012.