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单词 sugar cane
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sugar canen.

Etymology: < sugar n. + cane n.1 Compare French canne à sucre, †de sucre, Spanish caña de azucar, Portuguese canna d'assucar.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsugar-cane.
A tall stout perennial grass, Saccharum officinarum, cultivated in tropical and subtropical countries, and forming the chief source of manufactured sugar. African or Chinese sugar cane: see imphee n., sorgho n. b, sorghum n. 1b.
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reeda1398
canamell?a1425
sugar cane1568
sugar1593
sugar-reed1718
plant cane1721
sorgho1760
cane1781
ribbon cane1803
riband cane1811
imphee1857
sweet sorghum1859
sweet sorgho1861
sugar-grass1862
plant1866
broom corn1886
1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde lxxvii. 126 The stalke groweth like to Suger Canes.
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. xi. 28 By these messengers were presented..three Sheepe, many Orenges, and Sugar Canes.
c1592 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta iv. 1814 The Meads,..Instead of Sedge and Reed, beare Sugar Canes.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iv. 149 Their mighty wealth of Sugar canes, being first transported from the Canaries.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 135 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors Sugar Canes, eighteen foot long, and seven inches about.
1779 F. Hervey et al. Naval Hist. Great Brit. II. 203 The first introduction of the sugar-cane into the English West-India settlements, is said to be in the year 1641.
1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 382 The Sugar-Cane..must be considered..a native of China.
1857 H. S. Olcott (title) Sorgho and Imphee, the Chinese and African Sugar Canes.
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 697 Holcus saccharatus or Sorghum saccharatum, is called the North China Sugar-cane or Sweet Sorgho.
1878 J. Morley Diderot II. 243 A gang of negro-slaves work among the sugar-canes.
attributive.1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 625 The substances which he found in sugar-cane juice.1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1195 Sugar-cane mill.1876 Nature 14 Dec. 150 The Sugar-Cane Disease in the May River District, Queensland.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

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sugar cane
2. Hence, with various defining words, bamboo cane, dragon cane, rattan cane, reed cane, sugar cane; see bamboo n., etc. Malacca cane n. a species ( Calamus Scipionum) much thicker than the rattan, used for walking-sticks. Tobago cane n. a slender West Indian palm, used for the same purpose. Also in the names of plants which are not canes: as dumb cane n. an araceous plant, Dieffenbachia seguina. Indian cane n. Canna indica (family Marantaceæ). sweet cane n. the Sweet Flag, Acorus Calamus.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > palm > stems of
rattan?1734
rotan1771
Tobago cane1866
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > [noun] > rattan palm
rattan1681
jambee1704
rotan1771
calamus1836
Malacca cane1874
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Asian
mahua1610
jambee1704
hinoki1727
sugi1727
meranti1783
merbau1783
sal1789
sundri1799
calamander1804
sissoo1810
toon1810
looking-glass tree1822
East India mahogany1829
pyinkado1832
dhamnoo1834
haldu1836
jelutong1836
zelkova1836
cryptomeria1838
kempas1839
shisham1849
jarul1850
Japan cedar1852
mast tree1862
keyaki1863
petwood1866
alstonia1867
Malacca cane1874
Japanese cedar1880
mowra1883
seraya1893
o-matsu1916
dhaman1923
sepetir1927
kapur1935
mengkulang1940
ramin1953
1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xliii. 24 Thou hast bought mee no sweete cane with money. View more context for this quotation
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Acore, Calamus aromaticus, the sweet Cane.
1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 227/2 The canes which grow immediately from the planted slips are called plant-canes..the canes which sprout up from the old roots, or stoles, being called rattoons.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 116/1 Its [Bactris minor] stems..are said to be sometimes imported into this country under the name of Tobago canes.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 406 Dieffenbachia, It has acquired the name of Dumb Cane in the West Indies, in consequence of its fleshy cane-like stems rendering speechless any person who may happen to bite them, the juice of the plant being so excessively acrid as to..prevent articulation for several days.
1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 443/2 Malacca canes have frequently to be colored in parts.
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