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Definition of: ratoon
(ra·t
n′) noun
1. A new shoot from the root of a cropped plant, as from a sugarcane.
2. One of the heart leaves in a tobacco plant.
—v.i. To sprout from a root planted the previous year. [<Sp. retoño <Hind. ratun]
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