rattoon

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A form of ratoon — A shoot sprouting from the root of a cropped plant, especially sugar cane.

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Meanings

nounrattoon (plural rattoons)

plural rattoons

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of ratoon (“rattan cane”).

    [...] Mr. Hawly did give me a little black rattoon, painted and gilt.

    1660 September 22 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “September 13th, 1660”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC, page 240
verbrattoon (third-person singular simple present rattoons, present participle rattooning, simple past and past participle rattooned)

present singular third person rattoons · participle present rattooning · participle past rattooned · past rattooned

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of ratoon.

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

rattoon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rattoon

MLA

“rattoon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rattoon. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rattoon,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rattoon.

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