Lexicographical Neighbors of Ratooners
Literary usage of Ratooners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rice Ratooning by International Rice Research Institute (1988)
"... were disproportionally good ratooners (11). Environmental Maturity took longer
with taller cuts (25). But a lower 5-cm cutting height delayed maturity 9 ..."
2. Sugar and the Sugar Cane: An Elementary Treatise on the Agriculture of the by Noël Deerr (1905)
"They are stated to be bad ratooners, with a fair sugar content, likely to succeed
as plant cane and originating from the Marquesas Islands. ..."
3. Hand-book of Indian Agriculture by Nitya Gopal Mukerji (1901)
"The canes of both these varieties are somewhat thicker than Khari canes, but they
are not such free ratooners nor can they stand water-logging so well as ..."