sugarcane
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- noun
- /ˈʃʊɡərˌkeɪn/
:
caña de azúcar
- Farmers harvest sugarcane to extract the sweet juice used in making sugar.
- sugarcane bagasse
- sugarcane borers
- sugarcane zone
Examples
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"We've been doing this kind of work with sugarcane in the United States since about 1992," Wiegand says.
Academic text (1995) -
Much work, such as cutting sugarcane, is seasonal, and some work requires migration to other islands.
Academic text (2002) -
I have some nice fresh sugarcane for you.
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I was eight years old out there in them sugarcane fields, you know.
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Oh, they are burning the sugarcane to bring in the harvest.
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There had been sticks of sugarcane and some women sitting on a mat in the shade.
Fiction book (1998) -
Most of the area, once in sugarcane, is now covered with bananas and plantains.
Academic text (1995) -
Lately, he thought about his father, the sugarcane farmer, who used to teach him about tractors and steam engines.
Fiction book (1997) -
Industry in the interior consists mostly of plants that process agricultural products such as sugarcane, pulpwood, and wine grapes.
Academic text (2000) -
That's good news to Robert Judice, a farmer who's been growing sugarcane in Louisiana since 1962.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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A tall tropical plant with thick sweet stalks used to make sugar
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A group of tall grasses like sugarcane that are grown for their sweet stems
A tall grass with thick stems whose juice is used to make sugar
How Sweet
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sugarcane is made of sugar and cane. Sugar comes from old words meaning 'sweet', and cane means 'reed' or 'stick', so a sugarcane is like a 'sweet reed', which explains why its tall, sweet stems are used to make sugar.