Definition of "sugar cane" [sugar cane]

• A tall tropical southeast Asian grass (Saccharum officinarum) having thick, solid, tough stems that are a chief commercial source of sugar. (noun)

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• "I know that the Black River Gorges contain small, precious remnants of forest, enclaves of wild landscape amid the sugar cane and the urban sprawl and the beach-tourism development that carpet modern Mauritius."
• "A lush-looking vegetable garden surrounded it save for a path of basalt rocks to the door, and beyond the garden sugar cane waved."
• "Cacha ç a is that old sugar cane moonshine used by Alfred Wallace for pickling specimens."