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bagasse

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /bəˈɡæs/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /bæ-/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /-ˈɡɑːs/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /bəˈɡæs/
  • General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -æs

1

noun

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: megass, megasse

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Synonym of bagassosis (“pneumoconiosis caused by the inhalation of dust from bagasse (sense 1)”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, obsolete, uncountable, usually

Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bagassosis

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

the dry dusty pulp that remains after juice is extracted from sugar cane or similar plants

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: pulp

History

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).

Across languages

Translations

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: ثفل القصب — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Assamese: ডাবৰি (dabori) — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Assamese: সিটা (xita) — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Assamese: শিঠা (xitha) — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Assamese: জাবৰি (zabori) — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Catalan: bagàs — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Cebuano: bagaso — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Cebuano: sapal — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Chinese Mandarin: 甘蔗渣 (gānzhezhā, gānzhèzhā) — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Chinese Mandarin: 蔗渣 (zhèzhā) — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Min Nan Chinese: 蔗粕 — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Dutch: bagasse — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Dutch: ampas — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Dutch: tras — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Esperanto: bagazo — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Finnish: bagassi — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Finnish: sokeriruokojäte — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • French: bagasse — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Galician: bagazo — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Galician: bagullo — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Galician: cadrazo — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Galician: cangallo — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • German: Bagasse — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Hindi: खोई (khoī) — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Ilocano: bugaso — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Indonesian: bagas — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Indonesian: ampas tebu — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Indonesian: belotong — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Irish: bagás — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Italian: bagassa — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Japanese: バガス (bagasu) — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Malay: hampas tebu — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Maranao: bagaso — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Khiamniungan Naga: lǖkīngchāh — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Persian: باگاس — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Portuguese: bagaço — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Romanian: bagasă — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Russian: багасса (bagassa) — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Serbo-Croatian: бага̀са — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Serbo-Croatian: bagàsa — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Slovak: bagasa — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Spanish: bagazo — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Swedish: blast — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Tagalog: bagaso — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Tagalog: yamas — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Tamil: சக்கை (cakkai) — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Thai: ชานอ้อย (chaan-ɔ̂i) — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Turkish: bagas — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Vietnamese: bã mía — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted
  • Welsh: siwrwd siwgwr — residue from processing sugar cane, etc., after the juice is extracted