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sugarcane

sugarcane 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 sugarcane

pluralsugarcanes

Words formed from sugarcane

Phrases with sugarcane

Questions about sugarcane

What is sugarcane the alternative form of?
Sugarcane is the alternative form of sugar cane.

Words near sugarcane in the dictionary

  1. sugarbowl
  2. sugarbowls
  3. sugarbush
  4. sugarbushes
  5. sugarcakes
  6. sugarcane
  7. sugarcane borer
  8. sugarcane borers
  9. sugarcane grassy shoot disease
  10. sugarcane mosaic virus
  11. sugarcane mosaic viruses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sugarcane (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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