Mario Freitas Mar 8, 2019:

@ Muriel I was thinking in Portuguese, as usual. In PT, we use bagaço for any fruit, not only for sugarcane. So wrong guess.

Muriel Vasconcellos Mar 7, 2019:

bagasse The term is now only used in connection with the production of sugarcane and sometimes sorghum. Here's what the Encyclopedia Britannica says:

Bagasse, also called megass, fibre remaining after the extraction of the sugar-bearing juice from sugarcane. The word bagasse, from the French bagage via the Spanish bagazo, originally meant “rubbish,” “refuse,” or “trash.” Applied first to the debris from the pressing of olives, palm nuts, and grapes, the word was subsequently used to mean residues from other processed plant materials such as sisal, sugarcane, and sugar beets. **In modern use, the word is limited to the by-product of the sugarcane mill.**