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saccharine
Part of speech: AdjectivePertaining to, like, or producing, sugar; sweet.
Usage examples "saccharine":- Were we to inquire by what means the same barley, with the same treatment, produces unequal portions of the saccharine matter in different situations, we should perhaps find it principally owing to the different qualities of the water used in malting, some of which are so much better suited to the quality of the grain than others, that the difference is truly astonishing. - "The American Practical Brewer and Tanner", Joseph Coppinger.
- The French workwoman must give eleven or twelve sous, and then have only beet sugar, which has not much over half the saccharine quality of cane sugar. - "Prisoners of Poverty Abroad", Helen Campbell.
- But we may here remark that the Egyptians are as fond of the green sugar- cane as an article of diet as the blacks of the West Indies, who may be seen munching its luscious saccharine at all times and seasons. - "The Khedive's Country", George Manville Fenn.