Molasses meaning

mə-lăs'ĭz
A thick syrup produced in refining raw sugar and ranging from light to dark brown in color.
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A thick, usually dark-brown syrup produced during the refining of sugar, or from sorghum, etc.
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A thick brownish syrup produced in the refining of raw sugar.
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Plural form of molasse.
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Origin of molasses

  • 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
  • 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

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.

  • Within its limits, in 1905, all the sugar and molasses were manufactured and much of the petroleum was refined, nearly all of the iron and steel ships and steam locomotives were built, and 93% of the carpets and rugs were made, and the total value of the manufactures of this city in that year was nearly one-third of that for the entire state.

  • 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.

  • On some plantations making sugar for particular markets and use in refineries it is the custom to make only one class of sugar, by boiling the molasses produced by the purging of one strike with the sugar in the next strike.

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