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Ratoon

Ra-toon',, n.

noun

n. [Sp. reto-ño, sprout or shoot sprung up from a plant which has been cut, re-toñar, to sprout or shoot again, applied to a plant which has been cut, from Lat. re, again, and tumidus, swollen, swelling.]

A sprout from the root of the sugar-cane, which has been cut. Edwards.
A rattan cane. [Obs.] Pepys.

Ra-tōon’, v. i.

verbintransitive

[imp. & p. p. RATOONED; p. pr. & vb. n. RATOONING.] To sprout or spring up from the root, as in the sugar-cane from the root of the previous year's planting. [U. S.]