bagasse

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bagasse (buh-GAS) - n., the fibrous residue of sugarcane after the juice has been extracted.


Or of sorghum, beets, blue agave, or other similar plants. It can be used as a biofuel, to make paper, or a dietary supplement (it's a soluble fiber). The word is an Americanism from the 1820s, from French, from Spanish bagazo, dregs, from of baga, seed capsule of the flax plant and speculated to have originally been of any fruit, from Latin bāca, berry.


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---L.