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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Sucrose obtained from sugar cane.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Sugar obtained from the sugar-cane, as distinguished from beet-root sugar, grape-sugar, starch-sugar, etc. See sugar.
  • noun A general name for saccharose, C12H22O11, whether derived from cane, sorghum, sugar-beet, or maple, to distinguish it from the glucoses, milk-sugar, maltose, etc.

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  • noun Sugar obtained from the sugarcane plant

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun sucrose obtained from sugar cane
  • noun sugar from sugarcane used as sweetening agent

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