SUGARCANE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sugarcane mean? 

• SUGARCANE (noun)
  The noun SUGARCANE has 2 senses:

1. juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice

2. tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar

  Familiarity information: SUGARCANE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUGARCANE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

sugar cane; sugarcane

Hypernyms ("sugarcane" is a kind of...):

cane (a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane)

Holonyms ("sugarcane" is a part of...):

Saccharum officinarum; sugar cane; sugarcane (tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Saccharum officinarum; sugar cane; sugarcane

Hypernyms ("sugarcane" is a kind of...):

graminaceous plant; gramineous plant (cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and long narrow leaves)

Meronyms (parts of "sugarcane"):

sugar cane; sugarcane (juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sugarcane"):

noble cane (sugarcanes representing the highest development of the species; characterized by large juicy stalks with soft rinds and high sugar content)

Holonyms ("sugarcane" is a member of...):

genus Saccharum; Saccharum (tall perennial reedlike grass originally of southeastern Asia: sugarcane)

 Context examples 

Sugarcane is used to produce bioethanol and therefore already contributes to a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

(Method that cuts sugarcane emissions gets global prize, SciDev.Net)

Brazilian ethanol is made from sugarcane.

(Ethanol to gasoline switch raises nanoparticles in air, SciDev.Net)

PAHs make up about 10 percent of the carbon in the universe, and are found on the Earth where they are released upon the burning of organic material such as meat, sugarcane, wood.

(“Kitchen Smoke” Molecules in Nebula Offer Clues to the Building Blocks of Life, NASA)

Microalgae have a productivity rate considerably higher than that of soybeans and sugarcane.

(Petrobras considers producing biodiesel from microalgae, Agência Brasil)

MLN usually arises from the interaction of two viruses: maize chlorotic mottle virus (MSMV) and sugarcane mosaic virus (SCMV).

(Researchers model ways to control deadly maize disease, SciDev.Net)

Previous attempts at making filters out of materials such as groundnut shell, mango leaf, rice husk and sugarcane bagasse, met with limited success.

(Watermelon rind a cheap filter for arsenic in groundwater, SciDev.Net)

The researchers used vinasse, a byproduct of sugarcane ethanol and sugar production, and a residue known as POME (palm oil mill effluent), which results from palm processing and is used in the fertirrigation of plantations.

(Brazilian researchers identify microalgae that can provide biofuels, Agência Brasil)

Other recent developments in crop biotechnology listed in the report include GM sugarcane that is resistant to insects and drought, GM apples that do not turn brown, GM canola and safflower that have high levels of oleic acid which has anti-cancer properties.

(GM tech expands with more crops to more countries, SciDev.Net)

Brazil is the greatest sugarcane producer in the world and the main exporter of ethanol, which also powers 40 per cent of vehicles in the country.

(Method that cuts sugarcane emissions gets global prize, SciDev.Net)

Each ton of microalgae used for the production of biodiesel may remove up to 2.5 tons of carbon dioxide from the air, a much higher rate than that of other plants normally used for the production of biodiesel—be it from soybeans or sugarcane.

(Petrobras considers producing biodiesel from microalgae, Agência Brasil)