RATOON
- a shoot of a perennial plant (as sugarcane)
- crop (as of bananas) produced on ratoons
- sprout or shoot from the root of a plant, esp. a sugarcane, after it has been cropped
- to put forth or cause to put forth ratoons
- to sprout from a root planted the previous year, also RATTOON [v -ED, -ING, -S]
- to sprout from a root planted the previous year [v RATOONED, RATOONING, RATOONS]