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SUGAR CANE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Saccharum officinarum; sugar cane; sugarcane

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sugar cane" is a kind of...):

graminaceous plant; gramineous plant (cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and long narrow leaves)

Meronyms (parts of "sugar cane"):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sugar cane"):

noble cane (sugarcanes representing the highest development of the species; characterized by large juicy stalks with soft rinds and high sugar content)

Holonyms ("sugar cane" is a member of...):

genus Saccharum; Saccharum (tall perennial reedlike grass originally of southeastern Asia: sugarcane)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

sugar cane; sugarcane

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sugar cane" is a kind of...):

cane (a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane)

Holonyms ("sugar cane" is a part of...):

Saccharum officinarum; sugar cane; sugarcane (tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar)

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