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sugar cane

noun

  1. a coarse perennial grass, Saccharum officinarum, of Old World tropical regions, having tall stout canes that yield sugar: widely cultivated in tropical regions Compare sugar beet
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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These early British settlers soon established tobacco then sugar cane plantations and started importing workers to toil on them.

As of last year, even the plastic cap on many containers is made out of a degradable product derived from sugar cane.

For the next twelve years, he was forced to pick cotton and cut sugar cane, being whipped and beaten on an almost daily basis.

Infidelity is as Cuban as sugar cane, and for several years Ángel Castro juggled two families.

Besides, there is always a bunch of bananas hanging inside the house, and he has sugar-cane in abundance.

Receiving small encouragement in England, he applied to sugar-cane planters to give his engines a trial in the West Indies.

In Louisiana the tobacco plant flourishes well and grows as well and as luxuriantly as sugar cane.

And he ran on, holding the piece of sugar-cane, like some hieratic figure holding a torch in a procession.

Hamza took down the panniers after laying his wand of sugar-cane upon the burning ground.

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