Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The dry, fibrous residue remaining after the extraction of juice from the crushed stalks of sugar cane, used as a source of cellulose for some paper products.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The sugar-cane after it has been crushed and the juice extracted; cane-trash.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Sugar cane, as it comes crushed from the mill. It is then dried and used as fuel. Also extended to the refuse of beetroot sugar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The residue from processing
sugar cane after the juice is extracted
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the dry dusty pulp that remains after juice is extracted from sugar cane or similar plants
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Surplus bagasse is used as bedding for premium beef cattle on Ie Island, and as fertilizer after being mixed with animal excrement.
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It gives us 3,000 quintals of sugar and it produces "x" quantity of bagasse, which is used in the central's operation.
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This formula gives the total available heat per pound of bagasse, that is, the heat generated per pound less the heat required to evaporate its moisture and superheat the steam thus formed to the temperature of the stack gases.
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And so we're - and we started, you know, looking at agricultural products like sugarcane bagasse, which is, you know, just the stuff left up - over after sugarcane has been pressed to remove the, you know, the sugar.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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While the smell brings to mind molasses, this goo, called bagasse, won't find its way into people-pleasing confections.
Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Business Mirror: Kamb 2010
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There's also a 'woody' range which has less impressive eco-credentials but is all biodegradable, as is the 'pulp' range which are moulded fibre products made from bamboo stalks, straw and bagasse, which is a sugar cane by product.
British Blogs 2009
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There's also a 'woody' range which has less impressive eco-credentials but is all biodegradable, as is the 'pulp' range which are moulded fibre products made from bamboo stalks, straw and bagasse, which is a sugar cane by product.
Life Goggles 2009
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They also use the remainder of the sugar cane plant, called bagasse, to generate electricity for their use and for about 20 percent of the island's needs.
Hawaii Reporter 2009
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The spirit's taste depends on the length of fermentation, on whether or not juice is fermented with the fibrous "bagasse" (the residue left behind after the juice is extracted), and on the design of the still.
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The spirit's taste depends on the length of fermentation, on whether or not juice is fermented with the fibrous "bagasse" (the residue left behind after the juice is extracted), and on the design of the still.
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One leading approach is to use bagasse, the dry, pulpy material left over after juice is extracted from sugarcane.
The bowls at Chipotle and Sweetgreen are supposed to be compostable. They contain cancer-linked "forever chemicals." Joe fassler 2020
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They are made from bagasse, a fiber produced as a byproduct from sugar cane mills.
Why ‘Biodegradable’ Isn’t What You Think John Schwartz 2020
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