Definition of Cane sugar

1. Noun. Sucrose obtained from sugar cane.

Generic synonyms: Carbohydrate, Saccharide, Sugar
Specialized synonyms: Demerara

2. Noun. Sugar from sugarcane used as sweetening agent.
Generic synonyms: Refined Sugar, Sugar

Definition of Cane sugar

1. Noun. Sugar obtained from the sugarcane plant ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cane Sugar

candying
candylike
candymaker
candyman
candymen
candytuft
candytufts
candyweed
cane
cane blight
cane brake
cane knife
cane rat
cane rats
cane reed
cane sugar (current term)
cane toad
cane toads
canebrake
canebrake rattler
canebrake rattlesnake
canebrakes
canebreak
canebreaks
canecutter
caned
canefield fever
canegrub
canegrubs
caneh

Literary usage of Cane sugar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1862)
"cane sugar undergoes no change when left from two to four days, at 104° Fah., ... Lactic acid may, after a time, be detected in a mixture of cane sugar, ..."

2. The Analyst (1879)
"SIR,—In the current number of THE ANALYST Mr. JH Collins has given an interesting account of a case of adulteration of milk with- cane sugar. ..."

3. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1907)
"Spontaneous excretion of cane-sugar has never been actually proved. ... the a priori possibility of a synthetic formation of cane-sugar in the body ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1880)
"In Soleil's polarising sacchari- meter the 24 angular degrees are graduated into 100 divisions, and in using the instrument, a solution of cane sugar is ..."

5. Food and the Principles of Dietetics by Robert Hutchison (1917)
"cane sugar, or sucrose, is the most familiar of all kinds of sugar. ... Cane-sugar has been in use in the world as a food for many ages, but it is only ..."

6. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1909)
"Here is a table that shows the production of sugar in the world. The world's production both of cane sugar and of beet sugar. ..."

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