Any of various plants, typically grasses or other plants with tall, unbranched stems, thought to resemble the common reed or the giant reed. Now…

Sugar cane; a sugar cane plant or stem. Cf. sugar cane, n.

A tall stout perennial grass, Saccharum officinarum, cultivated in tropical and subtropical countries, and forming the chief source of manufactured…

= sugar cane, n. Obsolete.

= sugar cane, n.

(a) sugar cane of one year's growth.

= sorghum, n. 1b.

contextually = Sugar cane.

any of several varieties of sugar cane having stalks with red or purplish vertical stripes; formerly also called †riband cane.

= ribbon cane n. at ribbon, n. compounds 4b.

A species of sugar cane, Andropogon saccharatus Roxb. (Holcus Linn., Sorghum Persian), also called African or Chinese Sugar Cane, Broom Corn…

The Chinese sugar cane (Andropogon saccharatus, also called Holcus saccharatus and Sorghum saccharatum). Usually sweet sorghum.

= sorghum, n. 1b.

(a) = sorghum, n. 1b; (b) the Australian grass Pollinia fulva or Erianthus fulvus.

= plant cane n. at compounds 5. Frequently attributive.

The American name of the Common Millet, Sorghum vulgare, of which the panicles are made into brooms and stiff brushes; also the Sorghum saccharatum…