bagasse

American  

[buh-gas] / bəˈgæs /

noun

1. crushed sugarcane or beet refuse from sugar making.

2. paper made from fibers of bagasse.

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bagasse British  

/ bəˈɡæs /

noun

1. the pulp remaining after the extraction of juice from sugar cane or similar plants: used as fuel and for making paper, etc

2. Also called: megass.   megasse.  a type of paper made from bagasse fibres

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Etymology

Origin of bagasse

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40; from French, from Latin American Spanish, Spanish bagazo, derivative of baga “seed capsule of the flax plant” (presumably originally of any fruit), from Latin bāca “berry”; see also bay ⁴

Example Sentences

An example of biomass feedstocks includes wood residues from milling operations, sugarcane bagasse, or corn stover, all of which are abundant low-cost byproducts of forestry and agricultural operations.

From Science Daily • Feb. 7, 2024

Compostable-labeled containers can be anything from paper and sugarcane-based bagasse to bioplastic, which is plastic made from plants like corn.

From National Geographic • Sep. 26, 2023

Thom favors plates made with bagasse, a byproduct of sugar cane, and palm leaf plates from Dtocs.

From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2021

The soil is contaminated with arsenic from a former plant that used sugarcane bagasse to create canec, a wall- and ceiling-board panel used extensively in Hawaii until the 1970s.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2018

But is it not more probably a corruption of bagasse, which, as applied to the pressed sugarcane, means simply something worthless?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various