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单词 otaheite cane
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Otaheite cane
Otaheite cane n. a variety of sugar cane, introduced to the West Indies in the late 18th cent.; (also) a cane of this variety.
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1797 Jrnl. & Acct. Bk. Braco Estate 19 Sept. in Dict. Jamaican Eng. (1967) 333/1 Planting Otaheite Canes on the Piece by Rio Bueno.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 980/1 All the above-mentioned sugars are the produce of the Otaheite or Tahiti cane.
1933 L. C. Gray & E. K. Thompson Hist. Agric. Southern U.S. 740 In the closing years of the eighteenth century Otaheite cane had been substituted for the sensitive Malabar and Creole varieties.
1985 J. W. Purseglove Trop. Crops: Monocotyledons 217 Bligh, on his second voyage to Tahiti to collect breadfruit, also carried the ‘Otaheite’ cane to the West Indies in 1793.
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