sugar cane

canne à sucre

Grande plante des pays chauds dont les tiges épaisses contiennent un jus sucré utilisé pour fabriquer du sucre.

En anglais simple : A tall plant grown in hot countries whose thick stems contain sweet juice used to make sugar.

• They grow sugar cane here.
• Workers cut the sugar cane and load it onto trucks.
• The factory makes sugar from the juice of sugar cane.

Synonymes : sugarcane

Expressions courantes : grow sugar cane, cut sugar cane, sugar cane fields

sucre d’orge

Bonbon en forme de canne, souvent rayé de rouge et de blanc.

En anglais simple : A sweet made in the shape of a walking stick, often with red and white stripes.

• The child ate a sugar cane.
• They hung red and white sugar canes on the tree.
• She put a peppermint sugar cane in each gift bag.

Synonymes : candy cane

Expressions courantes : a sugar cane, striped sugar cane, eat sugar cane