sugarcane

or sug·ar cane

[ shoog-er-keyn ]

noun

1. a tall grass, Saccharum officinarum, of tropical and warm regions, having a stout, jointed stalk, and constituting the chief source of sugar.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sugarcane¹

First recorded in 1560–70; sugar + cane

Example Sentences

Like Bahraich today, the 1996 wolf attacks took place in villages near riverbanks, surrounded by rice and sugarcane farms and swampy groves.

From BBC

His father, Juan Sr., worked in the sugarcane fields, never earning more than $18 a week, and raised the six children alone after he and his wife separated when Chi Chi was 7.

From Los Angeles Times

Hundreds of people in Goroka and surrounding highland towns grow cash crops like coffee, tea, rubber, and sugarcane and ferry them down to the coast every week to sell to plantations and community boards.

From Salon

The team experimented with different kinds of biochar made from sugarcane husks, hemp waste, paper waste and cow manure.

From Science Daily

As obsolete, rusting cogs grind tonnes of sugarcane into pulp and juice, the workers tell me it is one of just two dozen working sugar mills in Cuba.

From BBC