ratooned
/ræˈtuːnd/
adjective
- Describing a plant that has grown from a ratoon or has been produced by ratooning.
- The ratooned field needed extra fertilizer to stay healthy.
- The ratooned sugarcane yielded a slightly smaller harvest than the first planting.
- Farmers often prefer ratooned banana plants because they grow faster.
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verb
- Past tense and past participle of ratoon: having produced new shoots from the root or stump.
- The old rice stumps ratooned and gave a second harvest.
- They ratooned the sugarcane field last spring.
- The grass ratooned quickly after the fire burned the old leaves.