RATOON

I. noun Etymology: Spanish retoño, from retoñar to sprout, from re- (from Latin) + otoñar to grow in autumn, from otoño autumn, from Latin autumnus Date: 1631 a shoot of a perennial plant (as sugarcane), a crop (as of bananas) produced on ~s, II. verb Date: 1756 intransitive verb to sprout or spring up from the root, transitive verb to grow or produce (a crop) from or on ~s