Ratoon
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɹəˈtuːn/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ratoon is a noun meaning A shoot sprouting from the root of a cropped plant, especially sugar cane.
Meaning
A shoot sprouting from the root of a cropped plant, especially sugar cane.
More Meanings
- A rattan cane.
- (intransitive, of a plant) To sprout ratoons.
- (transitive) To cut a plant, especially sugar cane, so that it will produce ratoons.
Example Sentences
A number of very small fruits from Cayenne ratoons were recently examined.
In the sugar areas to the north and south of the Colony cane has been known to "ratoon" for 20 to 30 years.
Their field tasks were somewhat easier than those of the great gang: cleaning and banking young canes, turning over trash or ratoon pieces (canes sprouting from old roots).
1660, Samuel Pepys, diary entry for 13 September, 1660, in Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, London: Henry Colburn, 1848, 3rd edition, Volume 1, p. 134, Mr. Hawley did give me a little black rattoon, painted and gilt.
Word Forms
- ratoons
- rattoon
- ratooning
- ratooned
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include plant-cane, tiller, shootling, rabe, arrow, primocane.
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