English > Saccharum: 1 sense > noun 1, plantMeaning | tall perennial reedlike grass originally / originally of southeastern Asia: sugarcane. |
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Synonym | genus Saccharum |
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Member of | Gramineae, family Gramineae, Graminaceae, family Graminaceae, Poaceae, family Poaceae, grass family | The grasses |
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Members | munj, munja, Saccharum bengalense, Saccharum munja | tough / tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets |
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sugarcane, sugar cane, Saccharum officinarum | tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks |
Broader | monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
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Spanish | genus saccharum, saccharum |
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Catalan | genus saccharum, saccharum |
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