bagasse
The residue from processing sugar cane or other plants such as sorghum or sugar beet…The residue from processing sugar cane or other plants such as sorghum or sugar beet after the juice is extracted.
Meaning
2 senses(uncountable, usually)The residue from processing sugar cane or other plants such as sorghum or sugar beet after the juice is extracted.
Bagasse
багассаbagassa
the dry dusty pulp that remains after juice is extracted from sugar cane or similar plants
(archaic, obsolete, uncountable, usually)Synonym of bagassosis (“pneumoconiosis caused by the inhalation of dust from bagasse (sense 1)”).
Translations
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Origin
Unadapted borrowing from French bagasse, from Spanish bagazo (“plant residue (especially fUnadapted borrowing from French bagasse, from Spanish bagazo (“plant residue (especially from sugar cane) after juice is extracted”), from baga (“berry”) (from Latin bāca (“berry or other small fruit; etc.”); further etymology uncertain) + -azo (augmentative suffix).
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Forms
plural: bagassesSynonyms
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3 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable