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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
rattoon .
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Examples
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Then when the rains returned new shoots, "rattoons," would sprout from the old roots to yield
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The planters can plant pretty much when they please, or not plant at all, for two or three years, the only difference in the latter case being that the rattoons which spring up after the cutting of the former crop are smaller in bulk.
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Details such as the variation in pace caused by the number of rattoons
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On the deep soil of Cuba the cane rattoons, it is said, not five or six, but forty years in succession.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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In the routine of work, each January was devoted mainly to planting fresh canes in the fields from which the stubble canes or second rattoons had recently been harvested.
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Almost everywhere on the island of Hawaii sugar-cane matures in twelve months, both rattoons and plant, and although it ought to be taken off as soon as it tassels, no doubt, it is not absolutely necessary to do it until about four months afterward.
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Almost everywhere on the island of Hawaii sugar-cane matures in twelve months, both rattoons and plant, and although it ought to be taken off as soon as it tassels, no doubt, it is not absolutely necessary to do it until about four months afterward.
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Almost everywhere on the island of Hawaii sugar-cane matures in twelve months, both rattoons and plant, and although it ought to be taken off as soon as it tassels, no doubt, it is not absolutely necessary to do it until about four months afterward.
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The planters can plant pretty much when they please, or not plant at all, for two or three years, the only difference in the latter case being that the rattoons which spring up after the cutting of the former crop are smaller in bulk.
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-- The first crop is called "plant cane;" subsequent crops which spring from the original roots, without replanting, are called "rattoons."]
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