bagasse

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ba=gasse

CIDE DICTIONARY

bagasse, n. [F.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bagasse, n. the dry pulpy residue left after the extraction of juice from sugar cane, usable as fuel or to make paper etc.

Etymology

F f. Sp. bagazo