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Answer for the clue "Juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar ", 9 letters:
sugarcane

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of sugar cane English)

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice [syn: sugar cane ] tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar [syn: sugar ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After the failure of the vines in 1852, the area of sugarcane increased. ▪ On return voyages, he could transport rum and sugarcane .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sugarcane , or sugar cane , is one of the several species of tall perennial true grasses of the genus Saccharum , tribe Andropogoneae , native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South Asia and Melanesia , and used for sugar production. It has ...

Usage examples of sugarcane.

I slipped off to the fields after breakfast to cut myself an armload of sugarcane.

A few Aussie bugs have been sent overseas to control pests like manuka weed and the sugarcane planthopper.

Drinking the water of the Nile, eating the crumbs of dourha bread she had brought from the hospital, getting an onion from a field, chewing shreds of sugarcane, hiding by day and trudging on by night, hourly growing weaker, she struggled towards Beni Souef.

Decocted from sugarcane, this Luciferian liqueur stole the souls of all who did not sport the big spurs and hence could not afford the brandies of Spain.

The problem in Hershey was the heavy soot that came from burning bagasse, the sugarcane after the juice had been pressed out.

Foremost among these local domesticates is the modern world’s leading crop, sugarcane, of which the annual tonnage produced today nearly equals that of the number two and number three crops combined (wheat and corn).

They were brought to work the sugarcane haciendas after the Spanish discovered they could "grow" gold in the form of sweet sugar.

The next morning I checked out of the hotel, drove across the river, then turned north and followed the state highway across a wide, flat plain covered with cotton and sugarcane and towns with names like Livonia and Krotz Springs.

Each day Beatriz strolled through Veracruz with bundled sugarcane packed on her back and cocuyo beetles hanging from her hat.

The freed slave who owned the building and charged exorbitant rents, extorting one out of every three reales from the putas and sugarcane hucksters he boarded, clearly did not bother with repairs.

Born and raised in a small village outside Roseau, educated in a Catholic convent school while cutting bananas and sugarcane in early morning and late afternoon, finally managing to earn one of the island’s government scholarships which enabled him to travel to the United States and, after many more years, earn his Ph.