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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ratoon /rəˈtuːn/

▶noun a new shoot springing from the base of a crop plant, especially sugar cane, after cropping. ▶verb produce or cause to produce ratoons.

– origin C17: from Sp. retoño ‘a sprout’.

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