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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ratoon .
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Examples
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Like sugarcane, it can also be ratooned (cut down and allowed to resprout from the roots) to provide crop after crop without replanting.
7. Sorghum 1996
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In the next year, pigeonpea is either ratooned and the cereals are planted, or it is allowed to dominate the field for pod production (Omanga and Matala 1987).
Chapter 10 1996
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Direct combined, the large, hardy, drought-resistant plants are ratooned as a perennial crop as a source of forage and / or fuel in developing nations in tropic and sub-tropic climates.
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