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sugar-cane

sugar-cane is the alternative form of sugar cane.

Meaning of sugar cane

Noun

sugar cane (usually uncountable, plural sugar canes)

  1. (usually) A tropical grass of the genus Saccharum (especially the species Saccharum officinarum, including hybrids) having stout, fibrous, jointed stalks, the sap of which is a source of sugar.
    • Daniel was watching Sarah, Bose and Femi munch contentedly on the firm sweetness of sugar cane, plucking back the green with their fingers to reveal the creamy yellow-white that left gluey juices on their hands and clothes.2005, Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl, Bloomsbury, page 306
  2. (usually) A candy cane, an edible candy in the shape of a cane.

Forms of sugar-cane

pluralsugar-canes

Questions about sugar-cane

What is sugar-cane the alternative form of?
Sugar-cane is the alternative form of sugar cane.

Words near sugar-cane in the dictionary

  1. sugar-bakers
  2. sugar-bread
  3. sugar-butter sauce
  4. sugar-butter sauces
  5. sugar-candian
  6. sugar-cane
  7. sugar-canes
  8. sugar-coat
  9. sugar-coated
  10. sugar-coated liver
  11. sugar-coated spleen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sugar-cane (page history and authors); sugar cane (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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