Saccharum

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



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