A shoot sprouting from the root of a cropped plant, especially sugar cane.
A rattan cane.
To sprout ratoons.
To cut a plant, especially sugar cane, so that it will produce ratoons.
A shoot that grows along the ground and produces roots at its nodes; a runner.
A hypha that acts as a runner, connecting sporangiophores.
A structure formed by some colonial organisms from which offspring are produced by budding, found in bryozoans, pterobranchs, some corals, and other invertebrates.