bagasse meaning: definition, etymology

bagasse

noun

UK /bəˈɡæs/ · US /bəˈɡæs/

Etymology Unadapted borrowing from French bagasse, from Spanish bagazo (“plant residue (especially from sugar cane) after juice is extracted”), from baga (“berry”) (from Latin bāca (“berry or other small fruit; etc.”); further etymology uncertain) + -azo (augmentative suffix).

Usually The residue from processing sugar cane or other plants such as sorghum or sugar beet after the juice is extracted.

Medicine, Pathology, Sciences Archaic, Obsolete, Usually Synonym of bagassosis (“pneumoconiosis caused by the inhalation of dust from bagasse (sense 1)”).

Derived terms: megass, bagasse disease, bagassosis
Related terms: cane juice