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Definition of Rattoon
1. n. One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second year's growth from the root, or later. See Plant-cane.
2. v. i. To sprout or spring up from the root, as sugar cane from the root of the previous year's planting.
Definition of Rattoon
1. Verb. (alternative spelling of ratoon) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rattoon
1. to ratoon [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: ratoon
Medical Definition of Rattoon
1. To sprout or spring up from the root, as sugar cane of the previous year's planting. Origin: Cf. Sp. Retonar. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rattoon
Literary usage of Rattoon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke, John Smith (1867)
"Mr. Hawley did give me a little black rattoon,1 painted and gill;, This day the
Duke of Gloucester died of the smallpox, by the great negligence of the ..."
2. Philippine Tariff: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of by Sereno Elisha Payne, William Howard Taft, United States War Dept (1906)
"Do you know of any sugar planter in Negros that gets a rattoon crop for the ...
I have gotten a rattoon crop the third year by the use of fertilizers and by ..."
3. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"The first crop from seed planting is called the plant crop, and subsequent crops
obtained without replanting are called rattoon crops. ..."
4. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"The first crop from seed planting is called the plant crop, and subsequent crops
obtained without replanting are called rattoon crops. ..."
5. Hawaii Past and Present by William Richards Castle (1917)
"The first crop is ready for the mill in about eighteen months; it is followed by
a rattoon crop in fourteen months, and by another ..."
6. Report by Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station (1889)
"As the insect lives only on cotton, if we can destroy all rattoon cotton throughout
the ... The destruction of rattoon cotton, even in a limited district, ..."
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