a sweet crystallizable material that consists wholly or essentially of sucrose, is colorless or white when pure tending to brown when less refined, is obtained commercially from sugarcane or sugar beet and less extensively from sorghum, maples, and palms, and is important as a source of dietary carbohydrate and as a sweetener and preservative of other foods
unit (as a spoonful, cube, or lump) of sugar
sugar bowl
SUGAR, to sweeten with a carbohydrate [v]
SUGAR, to cover with sugar (a sweet carbohydrate) [v]