Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing sugar; saccharine: as, saccharifcrous canes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Producing sugar.
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- adjective
producing orcontaining sugar
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Examples
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Fields of sugar-canes soon required the construction of a mill to crush the sacchariferous stalks destined to be used hereafter in the manufacture of molasses, tafia, and rum.
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Fields of sugar-canes soon required the construction of a mill to crush the sacchariferous stalks destined to be used hereafter in the manufacture of molasses, tafia, and rum.
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Jules Verne 1866
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Page 572 juice of the cane, the beet, or any other sacchariferous plant, the quantity of sugar will be less, and that of molasses greater, whenever too much lime is used in the first purification of the juice.
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