单词 | sugar cane |
释义 | sugar canen. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > plants yielding sugar or syrup > [noun] > sugar-cane 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2020). > as lemmassugar 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. ΘΚΠ 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. < n.1568 as lemmas |
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