saccharum

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saccharum - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Saccharum \Sac"cha*rum\, n. [NL. See Saccharine.] (Bot.)
     A genus of tall tropical grasses including the sugar cane.
     [1913 Webster]

saccharum - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Saccharum
      n 1: tall perennial reedlike grass originally of southeastern
           Asia: sugarcane [syn: Saccharum, genus Saccharum]