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Mediterranean vs Blackstrap - What's the difference?

mediterranean | blackstrap |

As a noun blackstrap is

the dark, viscous molasses remaining after maximum extraction of sugar from raw sugar cane, used in manufacturing and cattle feed.

mediterranean

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea and the region around it.
  • Derived terms

    * familial Mediterranean fever * Mediterranean anaemia, Mediterranean anemia * Mediterranean anchovy * Mediterranean back * Mediterranean Basin * Mediterranean blue * Mediterranean climate * Mediterranean coast fever * Mediterranean cypress * Mediterranean Deep Water * Mediterranean diet * Mediterranean disease * Mediterranean disease * Mediterranean eddy * Mediterranean erythematous fever * Mediterranean exanthematous fever * Mediterranean fan palm * Mediterranean fever * Mediterranean flour moth * Mediterranean forest * Mediterranean front * Mediterranean fruit fly * Mediterranean Games * Mediterranean gecko * Mediterranean gull * Mediterranean hackberry * Mediterranean-haemoglobin E disease, Mediterranean-hemoglobin E disease * Mediterraneanise, Mediterraneanize * Mediterranean house gecko * Mediterranean Irish * Mediterranean Irishman * Mediterranean lenses * Mediterranean lymphoma * Mediterranean monk seal * Mediterranean outflow * Mediterranean pine * Mediterranean race * Mediterranean recluse spider * Mediterranean region * Mediterranean Revival Style architecture * Mediterranean Sea * Mediterranean shearwater * Mediterranean snapdragon * Mediterranean spearfish * Mediterranean spotted fever * Mediterranean Squadron * Mediterranean States * Mediterranean Station * Mediterranean Theater of Operations * Mediterranean theileriosis * Mediterranean tropical cyclone * Mediterranean water * Mediterranean water shrew * Mediterranean wood * Protomediterranean

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The Mediterranean Sea.
  • The region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.
  • Derived terms

    * American Mediterranean * * Blue Mediterranean * Key of the Mediterranean * Red Mediterranean

    blackstrap

    Noun

    (-)
  • The dark, viscous molasses remaining after maximum extraction of sugar from raw sugar cane, used in manufacturing and cattle feed.
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  • (obsolete) A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
  • * Judd
  • No blackstrap to-night; switchel, or ginger pop.
  • (obsolete, nautical, slang) Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean.