saccharum
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1. tall perennial reedlike grass originally of southeastern Asia: sugarcane (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | liliopsid genus, monocot genus, |
| definition | : | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | saccharum officinarum, sugar cane, sugarcane, |
| definition | : | tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | munj, munja, saccharum bengalense, saccharum munja, |
| definition | : | tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | family graminaceae, family gramineae, family poaceae, graminaceae, gramineae, grass family, poaceae, |
| definition | : | the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane (noun.plant) |
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