A refined sugar which is produced from the sap of the sugar cane plant One of the two common forms of table sugar (the other one being beet sugar) May be used as a source of fermentable sugars in some English and Belgian beer styles, and for bottle priming White cane sugar has had all of the molasses refined out; light and dark brown sugar have had some of the molasses added back in (the more molasses, the darker the sugar) Raw or turbinado sugar is cane sugar which is not as fully refined as white cane sugar (i e it still contains some of the original molasses)
A tropical grass of the genus Saccharum (especially the species Saccharum officinarum) having stout, fibrous, jointed stalks, the sap of which is a source of sugar