单词 | lawyer cane |
释义 | > as lemmaslawyer cane lawyer cane n. Australian Rubus australis, Calamus australis, and Flagellaria indica, the stems of which are armed with sharp thorns. ΚΠ 1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. vi. 209 The lawyer cane or vine (Calamus)..is a vegetable of tortuous ambitions. 1936 Geogr. Jrnl. 87 229 They wore a band..made out of lawyer cane, around their middles as a protection against arrows. 1965 Austral. Encycl. V. 266/2 Lawyer Cane or Lawyer Vine, a name popularly if impolitely given to species of the rattan genus Calamus..and to Flagellaria indica. < as lemmas |
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