sugarcane
noun/ˈʃʊɡərkeɪn/
Frequency rank: #13,624 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
a tall tropical grass with thick stems that are a major source of sugar.
Example sentence
Workers harvested sugarcane under the hot tropical sun for hours each day.
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