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sugarcane

or sug·ar cane

[ shoog-er-keyn ]

noun

  1. a tall grass, Saccharum officinarum, of tropical and warm regions, having a stout, jointed stalk, and constituting the chief source of sugar.


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Origin of sugarcane1

First recorded in 1560–70; sugar + cane
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Rum is typically made by fermenting and then distilling sugarcane molasses, the thick treacle-like substance leftover after refined sugar has been produced from the harvested plants.

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Two prancing horses on the front perhaps a nod to the surrounding cattle-grazing and sugarcane fields.

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“They both picked cotton, you know what I mean? I was born in the middle of cotton fields and sugarcane fields. But nobody was picking that s— manually in the ’80s.

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Researchers had initially looked into using sugarcane to reduce reliance on costly, imported fossil fuels and help steer the Caribbean towards its ultimate target of zero emissions.

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Like Bahraich today, the 1996 wolf attacks took place in villages near riverbanks, surrounded by rice and sugarcane farms and swampy groves.

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