Ratoon Definition

ră-to͝on

ratoons

noun

A shoot growing from the root of a plant (esp. the sugar cane) that has been cut down.

Webster's New World

verb

To grow ratoons, or grow as a ratoon.

Webster's New World

To propagate (a crop) from ratoons.

American Heritage

(intransitive, of a plant) To sprout ratoons.

Wiktionary

To cut a plant, especially sugar cane, so that it will produce ratoons.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Ratoon

Singular:

ratoon

Plural:

Spanish retoño sprout from retoñar to sprout re- again (from Latin re–) otoñar to grow in autumn (from otoño autumn) (from Latin autumnus autumn)

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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