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Ratoon vs Racoon - What's the difference?

ratoon | racoon |

As nouns the difference between ratoon and racoon

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

As a verb ratoon

is (of a plant) to sprout ratoons.

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.

    racoon

    English

    (wikipedia racoon)

    Alternative forms

    * raccoon

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anagrams

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