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UK
/ʃˈʊɡəkˌeɪn/
]
[ US /ˈʃʊɡɝˌkeɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈʃʊɡɝˌkeɪn/ ]
NOUN
- tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar
- juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice
How To Use sugarcane In A Sentence
- Coffee, cotton, peanuts, mangoes, citrus fruits, and sugarcane are other important crops.
- They rotate their crops, thereby helping the soil to recover from centuries of monoculture under sugarcane.
- As it approached the crossroad, a truck loaded with sugarcane pulled out, blocking the road.
- ‘We all had it,’ she says, sitting on a rug in front of her mud hut while her granddaughter mauls a stalk of sugarcane.
- In Brazil, ethanol from fermentation of sugarcane is used pure or blended with gasoline to yield gasohol, which contains 24 percent ethanol.
- We have spent all of 1992 studying (? asospirilum), because up to now, we have not found a kind of azotobacter that can help in fertilizing sugarcane. Fidel Castro Gives Speech at Spare Parts Forum
- We lived from subsistence farming, growing sweet potatoes, corn, some sugarcane, and ginger.
- There are even agricultural islands solely for growing crops - yam, cassava, mango, cashews, coconut, sugarcane, sweet potato… just a tremendous variety.
- Some Creole is spoken near the Haitian border and in the sugarcane villages, where many Haitian workers live.
- They also produce sugarcane, bananas, pineapples, and mangoes for the food industry.
