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Definition of "sugar-cane" [sugar-cane]

  • Alternative spelling of sugar cane. (noun)

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Use "sugar-cane" in a sentence
  • "But while Ms. Roque includes many standard Iberian dishes among her recipes, they almost all bear a distinctive Cuban imprint: no saffron and lots of warm-water seafood in the paella ; mango slices and guava juice added to the sangria; stewed rabbit laced with aguardiente a killer Latin American sugar-cane liquor."
  • "Because we would not work the miles of sugar-cane where once our horses pastured, they brought the Chinese slaves from overseas."
  • "And behold, everything was got, from the choicest of royal taro to sugar-cane joints for the roasting, from opihis to limu, from fowl to wild pig and poi-fed puppies — everything save one thing."