Sugarcane
Sugarcane or Sugar cane (Saccharum) is a genus of 6 to 37 species (depending on taxonomic interpretation) of tall
perennial grasses (family Poaceae, tribe
Andropogoneae), native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the
Old World. They have stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in
sugar and measure 2 to 6 meters tall. All of the sugarcane species interbreed, and the major commercial
cultivars are complex
hybrids.
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Saccharum
Noun
1. tall perennial reedlike grass originally of southeastern Asia: sugarcane
(synonym) genus Saccharum
(hypernym) monocot genus, liliopsid genus
(member-holonym) Gramineae, family Gramineae, Graminaceae, family Graminaceae, Poaceae, family Poaceae, grass family
(member-meronym) sugarcane, sugar cane, Saccharum officinarum
Saccharum
(n.)
A genus of tall tropical grasses including the sugar cane.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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