sugar cane — noun 1. juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice • Syn: ↑sugarcane • Hypernyms: ↑cane • Part Holonyms: ↑sugarcane, ↑Saccharum officinarum 2. tall trop … Useful english dictionary
Molasses — Not to be confused with molasse. Thick blackstrap molasses slowly pours from an overfilled spoon to a dish below. Molasses is a viscous by product of the processing of sugar cane, grapes or sugar beets into sugar. The word molasses comes from the … Wikipedia
sugar — sugarless, adj. sugarlike, adj. /shoog euhr/, n. 1. a sweet, crystalline substance, C12H22O11, obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and… … Universalium
molasses — /meuh las iz/, n. a thick syrup produced during the refining of sugar or from sorghum, varying from light to dark brown in color. [1575 85; earlier molassos, molasso(e)s < Pg melaços, pl. of MELAÇO ( < LL mellacium half boiled new wine, for… … Universalium
Sugar plantations in Hawaii — Sugarcane was introduced to Hawaii by its first inhabitants in approximately 600 AD and was observed by Captain Cook upon arrival in the islands in 1778.Deerr, 1949] Sugar quickly turned into a big business and generated rapid population growth… … Wikipedia
Sugar plantations in the Caribbean — The Sugar cane plant was the main crop produced on the numerous plantations throughout the Caribbean through the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, as almost every island was covered with sugar plantations for refining the cane for its sweet… … Wikipedia
Sugar beet — Taxobox name = Sugar beet image width = 270px image caption = Two sugar beets the one on the left has been selectively bred to be smoother than the traditional beet, so that it traps less soil. regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis =… … Wikipedia
molasses cane — noun A plant, commonly sugar cane, maize (corn ), sorghum (maize or milo ), or other frutose producing grass plant (family Gramineae) used for production of cane syrup or molasses (treacle Britain) … Wiktionary
cane — The plant from the stalk of which juice is taken for the manufacture of sugar or molasses; the stem of a plant; (Scotch.) a tax; rent paid in produce … Ballentine's law dictionary
sugar — Synonyms and related words: ambrosia, angel, artificial sweetener, babe, baby, baby doll, blackstrap, blunt, boodle, brass, bread, bucks, buttercup, cabbage, calcium cyclamate, candy, cane syrup, carbohydrate, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, chips,… … Moby Thesaurus
