plant-cane

English

Noun

plant-cane (plural plant-canes)

1. A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting.

Usage notes

• The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “plant-cane”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)