saccharum officinarum

Questions about saccharum officinarum

What does saccharum officinarum mean?

saccharum officinarum means "tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar".

What is another word for saccharum officinarum?

Close synonyms include sugarcane, sugar cane. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is saccharum officinarum a common word?

saccharum officinarum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.