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Oddly stung over secret source of sweetener
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sugar cane
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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: sugarcane ] tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar [syn: sugarcane ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sugar \Sug"ar\, n. [OE. sugre, F. sucre (cf. It. zucchero, Sp. az['u]car), fr. Ar. sukkar, assukkar, fr. Skr. [,c]arkar[=a] sugar, gravel; cf. Per. shakar. Cf. Saccharine , Sucrose .] A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 A tropical grass of the genus ''Saccharum'' (especially the species (taxlink Saccharum officinarum species noshow=1)) having stout, fibrous, jointed stalks, the sap of which is a source of sugar. 2 An edible candy in the shape of a cane. n. 1 A tropical ...
Usage examples of sugar cane.
In the late eighteenth century chemists in Germany, where there was no sugar cane, perfected an intricate method of making the beet surrender its sugar, but the industry had staggered along until Napoleon Bonaparte, faced by the loss of cane sugar due to the British blockade, decreed, “.
And there was the sugar cane all round us and she made a fishpot which we used to go and take up every day.
It was a pity, because she was a pretty girl, but the teeth had been sharpened by munching raw sugar cane.
When the sugar cane stood eight feet tall, bursting with juice, for mile after mile you oould not see the red volcanic soil, nor could you see the water that Wild Whip had brought to it.
The Florida Sugar Cane League, not famous for its environmental conscience, suddenly has unveiled a plan to clean up the Everglades.
And there's swimming, and one of the features of the place is a small-scale railway that used to handle the sugar cane.
The bad teeth, sharpened from eating sugar cane from childhood, were bared in a frozen snarl.
They probably happy as two bugs on a stick of sugar cane far you knows.
One of the things that we are going to do during this session of Parliament, Mark, is to make sure that the sanctuary in the Bubezi Valley is ratified, and we are going to get funds to administer it properly, to make sure that nobody, ever, turns it into a sugar cane or cotton field, or floods it beneath the waters of a dam.
Mad Dog Rahler and his son Lester stood face-to face on a ridge above sugar cane fields.
And if this assembly had such powers, your nose would be lying in the gutter, and the rest of you would be on a ship to the West Indies, where you would chop sugar cane on my plantation for the rest of your life.
It was like somebody whipped up a big batch of what, sugar cane juice, motor oil, and rotten mangos.
And it had been Two-Tone, of all people, who had suggested that they grow sugar cane and then had explored the river banks in the Henrys' leaky, flat bottomed skiff until he had found wild cane.