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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PLANT-CANE

n.In the West Indies, the original plants of the sugar cane, produced from germs placed in the ground; or canes of the first growth, in distinction from the ratoons, or sprouts from the roots of canes which have been cut.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PLANT-CANE

PLANT-CANE Plant "-cane `, n.

Defn: A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.

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