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cane sugar

cane sugar

1 1.3
Sweetener made from the tall plant sugarcane used to sweeten food and drinks
  • noun
  • /keɪn ˈʃʌɡər/
translation icon : azúcar de caña
  • He told me the reason it tasted so great was that it was made with cane sugar.

This is not a bleached white cane sugar.

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Examples

  • Milk, milk, cream, cane sugar, egg yolks.

  • So there it sat, under transparent wrap on the milk-white surface of the kitchen table, smelling of lemon and cane sugar, gathering dust on the surface.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • We do not drink a lot of soda, so when we do, we only buy those with real cane sugar.

    Blog text (26)
  • In 1989, Cuba produced 8 million tons of cane sugar.

  • Fill your feeder with a mixture of one part cane sugar to four parts boiled water.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Some tangyuan are served as smaller, unfilled rice balls in a soup made from cane sugar.

    Blog text (17)
  • Bean & Bean uses Monin pumpkin syrup made from pure cane sugar to sweeten the drink and add spice.

    Blog text (1)
  • I also used to avoid the US version because they used high-fructose corn syrup rather than the cane sugar used in the UK-produced product, but happily the company switched the US formula back to sugar.

    Blog text (25)
  • When inefficient European beet sugar producers asked the EU for protective barriers against cane sugar producers around the world, it was a blow to refiners like Tate and Lyle.

  • Many people prefer to sweeten their tea with cane sugar instead of artificial sweeteners.

Synonyms

sugar
vscane sugar
732 1.0

A sweet white substance from plants used to sweeten food and drink

is the specific sweetener produced from sugarcane rather than all sweet substances
demerara sugar
vscane sugar
3.7

A coarse light brown sugar with large crunchy crystals used on drinks and cakes

is the general sweetener made from sugarcane without that specific crystal form
piloncillo
vscane sugar
  • US
9.6

A cone-shaped block of brown sugar that people use to sweeten food and drink

is the everyday sweetener from sugarcane rather than a molded unrefined block
gur
vscane sugar
  • Indian
9.4

A brown sugar made from sugar cane or palm sap used in South Asia

is made from sugarcane only and refers broadly to the common sweetener

How Pure

cane sugar
1 1.3
brown sugar
33 1.0

Surface Forms

cane sugar singular
cane sugars plural

Morphology

cane + sugar

The meaning 'sugar made from sugarcane' is directly derivable from combining 'cane' (sugarcane) with 'sugar' (a sweet crystalline ingredient); the compound simply specifies the source of the sugar. The 'X sugar' pattern indicating the raw material is a common, cross-linguistic composition, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.

Etymology

Cane sugar comes from the plant called sugar cane, a tall grass whose juice people boil and turn into sugar. So, it simply means the sugar made from that plant and is used as a 'sweetener'.