green syrup

English

Etymology

From green +‎ syrup. First use appears c. 1830. See cite below.

Noun

green syrup (countable and uncountable, plural green syrups)

  1. The liquid byproduct obtained during the initial stages of refining sugar cane or beet juice.
    • 1830, George Richardson Porter, The Nature and Properties of the Sugar Cane, page 218:
      This first draining is called green syrup, on account of the new or green state of the sugar from which it runs.
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