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Sugarcane

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Noun

1. sugar cane, sugarcane

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

2. saccharum officinarum, sugar cane, sugarcane

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Sugarcane

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noun
a coarse perennial grass, Saccharum officinarum, of Old World tropical regions, having tall stout canes that yield sugar: widely cultivated in tropical regions
Compare sugar beet

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Sugarcane

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a very tall, perennial, tropical grass (Saccharum officinarum) cultivated as the main source of sugar

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Sugarcane

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n.
Any of several tall often hybrid grasses of the Asian genus Saccharum, widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for their thick, solid, tough stems, which are the chief commercial source of sugar.

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