sugar cane

See also: sugarcane and sugar-cane

English

Alternative forms

• sugar-cane, sugarcane

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Noun

sugar cane (usually uncountable, plural sugar canes)

1. 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.
   • 2005, Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl, Bloomsbury, page 306:

     Daniel was watching Sarah, Bose and Femi munch contentedly on the firm sweetness of sugar cane, plucking back the green with their fingers to reveal the creamy yellow-white that left gluey juices on their hands and clothes.

2. A candy cane, an edible candy in the shape of a cane.

Meronyms

• cane sugar

Derived terms

• African sugar cane (Sorghum bicolor)
• Chinese sugar cane (Saccharum sinense)
• sugar cane baton
• sugar cane borer (Eldana saccharina)
• sugar cane stalk, sugar cane stick
• Sugar Cane Train
• sugarcane grassy shoot disease
• sugarcane soldier fly

Related terms

• sugar beet
• sugar maple

Translations

species of grass whose sap is a source of sugar

• Acehnese: tubèë
• Aklanon: tubo
• Albanian: kallam sheqeri m
• Arabic: قَصَب السُّكَّر m (qaṣab as-sukkar)

  Hijazi Arabic: قصب السكر m (gaṣab as-sukkar)

• Armenian: շաքարեղեգ (hy) (šakʿareġeg)
• Assamese: কুঁহিয়াৰ (kũhiar)
• Belarusian: цукро́вы трыснё́г m (cukróvy trysnjóh)
• Bengali: আখ (bn) (akh)
• Bhojpuri: ऊखि (ūkhi)
• Bole: reke
• Brunei Malay: gelagah, tebu
• Bulgarian: за́харна тръсти́ка f (záharna trǎstíka)
• Burmese: ကြံ (my) (kram)
• Catalan: canya de sucre f
• Central Melanau: tebou
• Chamicuro: ocha'tina
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蔗 (ze³)

  Mandarin: 甘蔗 (zh) (gānzhè, gānzhe), 竿蔗 (zh) (gānzhè)

• Czech: cukrová třtina f
• Danish: sukkerrør (da) n
• Dutch: suikerriet (nl) n
• Esperanto: sukerkano
• Fataluku: upa
• Fijian: dovu
• Finnish: sokeriruoko (fi)
• French: canne à sucre (fr) f
• Galician: cana de azucre (gl) f
• German: Zuckerrohr (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: σάκχαρ n (sákkhar)

• Gujarati: ઊસ f (ūsa), શેરડી f (śerḍī), ઇક્ષુ f (ikṣu)
• Hausa: rake (ha)
• Hawaiian: kō
• Hebrew: קנה סוכר
• Higaonon: tubu
• Hindi: ईख (hi) m (īkh), ऊख (hi) m (ūkh), गन्ना (hi) m (gannā)
• Hungarian: cukornád (hu)
• Icelandic: sykurreyr m
• Indonesian: tebu (id)
• Italian: canna da zucchero f
• Japanese: サトウキビ (ja) (satōkibi), 砂糖黍 (ja) (さとうきび, satōkibi)
• Javanese: tebu (jv)
• Kalmyk: шикрин хулсн (şikrin xulsn)
• Kannada: ಕಬ್ಬು (kn) (kabbu)
• Kapampangan: atbu
• Kazakh: қант құрағы (qant qūrağy), борыққамыс (boryqqamys), қант қамысы (qant qamysy)
• Khmer: អំពៅ (km) (ɑmpɨv)
• Kikuyu: kĩgwa class 7
• Korean: 단수수 (dansusu), 사탕수수 (ko) (satangsusu)
• Kumyk: шекер къамуш (şeker qamuş)
• Lao: ອ້ອຍ (lo) (ʼǭi)
• Low German: Suckerröör n
• Lü: ᦀᦾᧉ (˙ʼoay²)
• Luhya: emkachi
• Macedonian: шеќерна трска f (šeḱerna trska)
• Makasae: ufa
• Malay: tebu (ms)
• Malayalam: കരിമ്പ് (ml) (karimpŭ)
• Manchu: ᡬᠠᠨᡯᡝ (g'andze)
• Mansaka: tobo
• Maori: tō, tōhuka
• Maranao: tebo
• Marathi: ऊस m (ūs)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: чихрийн нишингэ (čixriin nišinge)

  Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠬᠢᠷ ᠦᠨ
  ᠨᠢᠰᠢᠩᠭᠦ (sikir-ün nisiŋgü)

• Navajo: dáʼákaz łikaní
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sukkerrør n

  Nynorsk: sukkerrøyr n

• Nupe: kpàǹsánnákó
• Old Javanese: tĕbu
• Ottoman Turkish: شكر قامشی (şeker kamışı), نیشكر (neyşeker)
• Pela: pʰauŋ³¹ tʃʰu⁵⁵
• Persian: نیشکر (fa) (neyšakar)
• Polish: trzcina cukrowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: cana-de-açúcar (pt) f
• Prakrit:

  Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀉𑀘𑁆𑀙𑀼 (ucchu)

  Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀇𑀓𑁆𑀔𑀼 (ikkhu)

• Romanian: trestie-de-zahăr f, trestie-de-câmp (ro) f
• Russian: са́харный тростни́к (ru) m (sáxarnyj trostník)
• Samoan: tolo
• Sanskrit: इक्षु (sa) m (ikṣu)
• Santali: ᱟᱸᱠ (ãk)
• Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀇𑀓𑁆𑀔𑀼 (ikkhu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шећерна трска f

  Roman: šećerna trska f

• Slovak: cukrová trstina f
• Slovene: sladkorni trs (sl) m
• Somali: qasabka sonkorta
• Spanish: caña de azúcar (es) f
• Swahili: muwa
• Swedish: sockerrör (sv) n
• Sylheti: ꠇꠥꠁꠀꠞ (kuiar)
• Tagal Murut: tobu
• Tagalog: tubo (tl)
• Tajik: шакари қамиш (šakari qamiš)
• Tamil: கரும்பு (ta) (karumpu)
• Tausug: tubu
• Telugu: చెరకు (ceraku)
• Tetum: tohu
• Thai: อ้อย (th) (ɔ̂i)
• Tocharian B: ikṣṣu
• Tongan: tō
• Tulu: ಕರುಂಬು (karumbu)
• Turkish: şeker kamışı (tr)
• Turkmen: şekerçiňrik
• Ukrainian: цукро́ва трости́на f (cukróva trostýna)
• Urdu: ایکھ m (īkh), اوکھ m (ūkh), نیشکر f (neśakar)
• Vietnamese: mía (vi)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: tevu
• Woleaian: wou
• Yiddish: צוקערראָר (tsukerror)
• Yoruba: ìrèké
• Zhuang: oij

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• cane sugar