Molasses Definition

mə-lăsĭz
noun
A thick, usually dark-brown syrup produced during the refining of sugar, or from sorghum, etc.
Webster's New World

Plural form of molasse.

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Origin of Molasses

  • French mélasse or Portuguese melaço compare Spanish melaza, from Late Latin mellaceus "honeylike", "honey-sweet", from Latin mel, mellis, "honey". See mellifluous and compare melasses.

    From Wiktionary

  • Portuguese melaços pl. of melaço from Late Latin mellāceum must from Latin mel mell- honey melit- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Molasses Sentence Examples

  • More than likely the bear had been attracted by the molasses in the grain.

  • Sugar and molasses have from time to time been manufactured from the corn stalks.

  • Sugar is still grown, and rum and molasses are made, but the consumption of these is confined to the island.

  • Manufacturing industries are for the most part closely related to the products of the soil, about two-thirds of the value of all manufactures in Igoo and in 1905 being represented by sugar and molasses refining, lumber and timber products, cotton-seed oil and cake, and rice cleaned and polished.

  • Throughout more than half of the same century also Gloucester carried on a varied and valuable trade with Surinam, hake being the chief article of export and molasses and sugar the principal imports.

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