plant-cane

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The original plants of the sugar-cane, produced from germs placed in the ground; or canes of the first growth, in distinction from the ratoons, or sprouts from the roots of canes which have been cut.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.