sugar cane

• sugar-cane, sugarcane

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sugar cane (usually uncountable, plural sugar canes)

1. 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.
   • 2005, Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl, Bloomsbury, page 306:

     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.

2. A candy cane, an edible candy in the shape of a cane.

• cane sugar

• African sugar cane (Sorghum bicolor)
• Chinese sugar cane (Saccharum sinense)
• sugar cane baton
• sugar cane borer (Eldana saccharina)
• sugar cane stalk, sugar cane stick
• Sugar Cane Train
• sugarcane grassy shoot disease
• sugarcane soldier fly

• sugar beet
• sugar maple

• cane sugar