Noun
A tropical grass of the genus Saccharum (especially the species Saccharum officinarum, including hybrids) having stout, fibrous, jointed stalks, the sap of which is a source of sugar.
A candy cane, an edible candy in the shape of a cane.
sugar-cane (countable and uncountable, plural sugar-canes)
Alternative spelling of sugar cane
sugar-cane
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. Billie Holiday
My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background. Diane Abbott
Agricultural waste is common in Mauritius (sugar cane residue) and Southeast Asia (rice husks). Source: Internet
A few years later, in 1620, Portuguese and Brazilian colonists arrived in number and São Luís started to develop, with an economy based mostly in sugar cane and slavery. Source: Internet
A meadow convert deep lay between the hill and the river, and boarding the meadow was a sugar cane plantation. Source: Internet
As has been the case since slavery and indentureship, sugar cane has to be harvested and processed within a very narrow window of forty-eight hours, to prevent its rapid deterioration and loss of the sucrose content. Source: Internet