Ratoon (noun)
rat-oon
A sprout or shoot from the root of a plant, especially a sugarcane, after it has been cropped.
1625–35; Spanish retoño sprout, derivative of retoñar to sprout again in the fall, equivalent to re- re- + – ( o ) toñar, derivative of otoño autumn.
Example sentences
“This year we’d have a full ratoon crop as the shoots from the last yield fill the fields.”
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