sugar cane

Questions about sugar cane

What does sugar cane mean?

sugar cane means "juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for sugar cane?

Close synonyms include sugarcane, sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum. 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 sugar cane a common word?

sugar cane is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.