Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PLANT'-CANE
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. – Edwards' W. Indies.
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