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  • noun Alternative spelling of sugar cane.

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Examples

  • But while Ms. Roque includes many standard Iberian dishes among her recipes, they almost all bear a distinctive Cuban imprint: no saffron and lots of warm-water seafood in the paella ; mango slices and guava juice added to the sangria; stewed rabbit laced with aguardiente a killer Latin American sugar-cane liquor.

    In Brief: Gastronomy 2011

  • An additional weather risk is that Florida's and Louisiana's sugar-cane crops, which are harvested over the winter, are susceptible to hurricanes and tropical storms.

    U.S. Increases Sugar Quota for Second Time Leslie Josephs 2011

  • Instead, its big bet has been on sugar-cane ethanol.

    Biofuels Industry Battles Past Bumps in the Road Guy Chazan 2011

  • And the seasonality of the sugar-cane harvest could mean that the two consecutive years of ethanol shortages signify a trend, he added.

    Brazil's Petrobras To Remain Net Oil Exporter Jeff Fick 2011

  • For example, it could use Cosan's bagasse—the fibrous waste material left behind after sugar-cane stalks are crushed to make ethanol— as feedstock for cellulosic ethanol.

    Biofuels Industry Battles Past Bumps in the Road Guy Chazan 2011

  • But the USDA operates a limit for low-tariff or duty-free imported sugar to protect domestic sugar-cane and sugar-beet farmers.

    U.S. Increases Sugar Quota for Second Time Leslie Josephs 2011

  • Because we would not work the miles of sugar-cane where once our horses pastured, they brought the Chinese slaves from overseas.

    Koolau the Leper 2010

  • Shell will also look at ways to boost yields by cultivating new sugar-cane varieties and better protecting crops.

    Biofuels Industry Battles Past Bumps in the Road Guy Chazan 2011

  • And behold, everything was got, from the choicest of royal taro to sugar-cane joints for the roasting, from opihis to limu, from fowl to wild pig and poi-fed puppies — everything save one thing.

    THE WATER BABY 2010

  • Plans include using leftover plant fibres to produce electricity for the joint venture's sugar-cane mills and selling the excess to Brazil's national grid.

    Biofuels Industry Battles Past Bumps in the Road Guy Chazan 2011

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