ratoon

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A shoot sprouting from the root of a cropped plant, especially sugar cane.

   “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).”

2. isim A rattan cane.

   “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.”

3. fiil To sprout ratoons.

   “In the sugar areas to the north and south of the Colony cane has been known to "ratoon" for 20 to 30 years.”

4. fiil To cut a plant, especially sugar cane, so that it will produce ratoons.

   “1969, M. Menzel; F. Wilson, "Genetic Relationships in Hibiscus Sect. Furcaria," Brittonia, vol. 21, no. 2, p. 100, Attempts to propagate them by cuttings (of flowering shoots) and to ratoon the old plants in the greenhouse in November were unsuccessful.”