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Ration vs Ratoon - What's the difference?

ration | ratoon |

As nouns the difference between ration and ratoon

is that ration is while ratoon is a shoot sprouting from the root of a cropped plant, especially sugar cane.

As a verb ratoon is

(of a plant) to sprout ratoons.

ration

English

(wikipedia ration)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A portion designated to a person or group.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To supply with a ration; to limit (someone) to a specific allowance of something.
    • We rationed ourselves to three sips of water a day until we were rescued.
  • To portion out (especially during a shortage of supply); to limit access to.
    • By the third day on the raft, we had to ration our water.
  • To restrict (an activity etc.)
    • Our present health care system is rationed only to those who can afford it because of unnecessary high cost, lack of insurance coverage by 47 million people, and exorbitant prescription prices.

    Anagrams

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    ratoon

    English

    Alternative forms

    *rattoon

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shoot sprouting from the root of a cropped plant, especially sugar cane.
  • * 1926 , Frank Wesley Pitman, "The Organization of Slave Labor," The Journal of Negro History , vol. 11, no. 4, p. 600,
  • *:Their field tasks were somewhat easier than those of the great gang: cleaning and banking young canes, turning over trash or ratoon pieces (canes sprouting from old roots).
  • *1968 , Paul C. Ekern, "Phyllotaxy of Pineapple Plant and Fruit," Botanical Gazette , vol. 129, no. 1, p. 94,
  • *:A number of very small fruits from Cayenne ratoons were recently examined.
  • A rattan cane.
    • (Samuel Pepys)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (of a plant) To sprout ratoons.
  • * 1893 , "Resources of British Honduras," Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information , vol. 1893, no. 82/83, p. 327,
  • *:In the sugar areas to the north and south of the Colony cane has been known to "ratoon " for 20 to 30 years.
  • To cut a plant, especially sugar cane, so that it will produce ratoons.
  • * 1969 , M. Menzel; F. Wilson, "Genetic Relationships in Hibiscus Sect. Furcaria," Brittonia , vol. 21, no. 2, p. 100,
  • *:Attempts to propagate them by cuttings (of flowering shoots) and to ratoon the old plants in the greenhouse in November were unsuccessful.

    • Derived terms

    *ratoon crop

    References

    *Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989. *Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996.