ratoon

A shoot sprouting from a plant base, as in the banana, pineapple, or sugar cane.

To produce or grow as a ratoon.

To propagate (a crop) from ratoons.

A sprout or shoot springing up from the root of a plant after it has been cropped; especially, a new shoot from the root of a sugar-cane that has been cut down. Compare plant-cane.

The heart-leaves in a tobacco-plant.

To sprout or send up new shoots from the root after being cropped or cut down: said of the sugar-cane and some other plants.

To induce the growth of young shoots by cutting back (old plants); raise another crop from (the old stools): as, to ratoon sugar-cane.

In the West Indies, to continue the growth of (plants) after the close of the dry season and after seed has been sown for the new crop: as, to ratoon cotton.

Same as rattoon, n.

A rattan cane.