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Sacchariferous :: Sacchariferous (a.) Producing sugar; as, sacchariferous canes..

Ferulaceous :: Ferulaceous (a.) Pertaining to reeds and canes; having a stalk like a reed; as, ferulaceous plants..

Cane :: Cane (n.) A local European measure of length. See Canna.

Hexdecyl :: Hexdecyl (n.) The essential radical, C16H33, of hecdecane..

Zincane :: Zincane (n.) Zinc chloride.

Buccaneer :: Buccaneer (n.) A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Canescent :: Canescent (a.) Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white..

Bagasse :: Bagasse (n.) Sugar cane, as it comes crushed from the mill. It is then dried and used as fuel. Also extended to the refuse of beetroot sugar..

Saccharin :: Saccharin (n.) A bitter white crystalline substance obtained from the saccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid; -- so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar (saccharose).

Dextrose :: Dextrose (n.) A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring in many ripe fruits. Dextrose and levulose are obtained by the inversion of cane sugar or sucrose, and hence called invert sugar. Dextrose is chiefly obtained by the action of heat and acids on starch, and hence called also starch sugar. It is also formed from starchy food by the action of the amylolytic ferments of saliva and pancreatic juice..

Head :: Head (n.) The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler..

Hierapicra :: Hierapicra (n.) A warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark..

Pentadecane :: Pentadecane (n.) A hydrocarbon of the paraffin series, (C15H32) found in petroleum, tar oil, etc., and obtained as a colorless liquid; -- so called from the fifteen carbon atoms in the molecule..

Hypotarsus :: Hypotarsus (n.) A process on the posterior side of the tarsometatarsus of many birds; the calcaneal process.

Rattoon :: Rattoon (v. i.) To sprout or spring up from the root, as sugar cane from the root of the previous year's planting..

Plant-cane :: Plant-cane (n.) A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon..

Saccharum :: Saccharum (n.) A genus of tall tropical grasses including the sugar cane.

Trash :: Trash (v. t.) To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane..

Thornbill :: Thornbill (n.) Any one of several species of small, brilliantly colored American birds of the genus Rhamphomicron. They have a long, slender, sharp bill, and feed upon honey, insects, and the juice of the sugar cane..

Carkanet :: Carkanet (n.) A carcanet.

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