Word Meanings - SACCHARUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of tall tropical grasses including the sugar cane.

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• SUGARPLUM
  A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
• TROPICALLY
  In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.
• SUGARED
  Sweetened. "The sugared liquor." Spenser.
• SUGARY
  1. Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet. Spenser. 2. Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.
• SUGARLESS
  Without sugar; free from sugar.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• SUGARINESS
  The quality or state of being sugary, or sweet.
• SUGAR-HOUSE
  A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.
• SUGARING
  1. The act of covering or sweetening with sugar; also, the sugar thus used. 2. The act or process of making sugar.
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• SUGAR
  fr. Ar. sukkar, assukkar, fr. Skr. çarkara sugar, gravel; cf. Per. 1. A sweet white crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet
• TROPICAL
  Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical. Jer. Taylor. The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the
• INCLUDE
  1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason
• INCLUDIBLE
  Capable of being included.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• INTERTROPICAL
  Situated between or within the tropics. J. Morse.
• EXTRATROPICAL
  Beyond or outside of the tropics. Whewell.
• INTRATROPICAL
  Within the tropics.
• SUBTROPICAL
  Nearly tropical.
• ULTRATROPICAL
  Situated beyond, or outside of, the tropics; extratropical; also, having an excessively tropical temperature; warmer than the tropics.
• ALLOTROPIC; ALLOTROPICAL
  Of or pertaining to allotropism. -- Al`lo*trop"ic*al*ly, adv. Allotropic state, the several conditions which occur in a case of allotropism.