sugar cane
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice
Types & categories
- cane hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Saccharum officinarum part holonym
Sense 2 noun
tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar
Types & categories
- gramineous plant hypernym
- noble cane hyponym
Parts & wholes
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | Saccharum officinarum |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | cane |
| 2 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Saccharum |
| 2 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | sugarcane |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | gramineous plant |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | noble cane |