sugar cane

See also: sugarcane and sugar-cane

English

Alternative forms

sugar-cane, sugarcane

Noun

sugar cane (usually uncountable, plural sugar canes)

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

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

Related terms

sugar beet
sugar maple

Translations

species of grass whose sap is a source of sugar

Aklanon: tubo
Albanian: kallam sheqeri m
Arabic: قَصَب اَلسُّكَّر‎ m (qaṣab as-sukkar)
Hijazi Arabic: قصب السكر‎ m (gaṣab as-sukkar)
Armenian: շաքարեղեգ (hy) (šakʿarełeg)
Assamese: কুঁহিয়াৰ (kũhiar)
Belarusian: цукро́вы трыснё́г m (cukróvy trysnjóh)
Bengali: আখ (bn) (akhô)
Bhojpuri: ऊखि (ūkhi)
Bole: reke
Brunei Malay: gelagah, tebu
Bulgarian: захарна тръстика f (zaharna trǎstika)
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)
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
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
Kalmyk: шикрин хулсн (shikrin hulsn)
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
Luhya: emkachi
Lü: ᦀᦾᧉ (˙ʼoay²)
Macedonian: шеќерна трска f (šeḱerna trska)
Makasae: ufa
Malay: tebu
Indonesian: tebu (id)
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 (siqir-ün nisiŋgü)
Navajo: dáʼákaz łikaní
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sukkerrør n
Nynorsk: sukkerrøyr n
Nupe: kpàǹsánnákó
Old Javanese: tĕbu
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
Yoruba: ìrèké
Zhuang: oij

Anagrams

cane sugar