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

Example Sentences

Sugar beets — root vegetables that contain high levels of sucrose — are used to produce more than half the sugar in the U.S., alongside sugar cane.

From Los Angeles Times

The plastic — even when made from non-fossil fuel sources such as kelp, corn or sugar cane — often contains additives that composters say can contaminate the soil.

From Los Angeles Times

It is also a far bigger group than sugar farmers, who number only about 4,000 in the US, less than a quarter of which produce sugar cane.

From BBC

Posters for candidates, inescapable in other parts of Australia, are conspicuously absent as you drive past fields of sugar cane and down a gently winding coastal road.

From BBC

Last year, Texas’ last remaining sugar mill shuttered, and all of its 250 employees were fired, because farmers no longer have enough water to grow sugar cane.

From Los Angeles Times