Associations to the word «Molasses»

Wiktionary

MOLASSES, noun. A thick brownish syrup produced in the refining of raw sugar.
MOLASSES, noun. Plural of molasse
MOLASSES CANE, noun. (US) (Appalachian) A plant, commonly sugar cane, maize/corn, sorghum (maize or milo), or other another frutose-producing grass plant (of the family Gramineae) used for production of cane syrup or molasses.
MOLASSES GRASS, noun. A spreading perennial forage grass, Melinis minutiflora, native to tropical Africa, that is covered with hairs which exude a sweet substance having the odour of molasses

Dictionary definition

MOLASSES, noun. Thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats