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Noun: Saccharum officinarum
  1. Tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar
    "Fields of Saccharum officinarum stretched across the plantation";
    - sugarcane, sugar cane

Type of: graminaceous plant, gramineous plant

Part of: genus Saccharum, Saccharum

Encyclopedia: Saccharum officinarum