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saccharum
Part of speech: NounA species of plants, widely distributed through the tropical parts of the world, from which sugar is obtained, including the sugar- cane.
Usage examples "saccharum":- Saccharum officinarum, L. Nom. - "The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines", T. H. Pardo de Tavera.
- This theory leads us to the consideration of an attempt to increase the natural quantity of the saccharum of malt by adventitious means; but it must be observed, on this occasion, that no addition to water will rise into the vessels of plants, but such as will pass the filter, the pores of which appearing somewhat similar to the fine strainers of absorbing vessels employed by nature in her nicer operations; we by analogy conclude, that properties so intimately blended with water as to pass the one, will enter and unite with the economy of the other, and vice versa. - "The American Practical Brewer and Tanner", Joseph Coppinger.
- The sugar- cane is called, in Latin, Saccharum officinale, that is, 'druggist's sugar, ' because the product of this plant was so rare that it was sold only at the druggists' shops. - "Adventures of a Young Naturalist", Lucien Biart.