Crossword-Solution: RATTOON
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rattoon | n. | One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second year's growth from the root, or later. See Plant-cane. |
| Rattoon | v. i. | To sprout or spring up from the root, as sugar cane from the root of the previous year's planting. |
Anagrams
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| RATTOON | anagram | NOTATOR, OTRANTO, TORTONA |
We have 1 clue for the answer “RATTOON”
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| Shoot from a root: Var. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with RATTOON (2)
The joints of the cane, being cut and laid horizontally in furrows, which are then covered over, spring up in a crop which comes to maturity in about a year; and when this is cut, the roots rattoon, or send up shoots for five or six years in succession.
Sugar-cane grows rapidly; and so strong is the soil that rattoon crops have been cut for twenty years without replanting, and no diminution of the saccharine yield has been noticed.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1980).