英语词汇“lawyer vine”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

lawyer vine

(also lawyer cane)

noun

An Australian climbing palm which is thickly covered in sharp spines and recurved hooks. It grows in rainforest, where groups may form dense tangled thickets.

Genus Calamus, family Palmae.

You can see examples of their crafts at the Falls Visitor Centre - shields made from fig tree buttresses, eeltraps from woven lawyer cane - and learn how the indigenes were crudely displaced....

The stretchers are only two saplings with a blanket strung between them and sewn up with lawyer vine.
Instead of willow, baskets are made from lawyer vine.

Origin

Early 20th century: probably so named by humorous analogy with ‘tortuous’ legal arguments.

单词	lawyer vine
释义	lawyer vine (also lawyer cane) noun An Australian climbing palm which is thickly covered in sharp spines and recurved hooks. It grows in rainforest, where groups may form dense tangled thickets. Genus Calamus, family Palmae. You can see examples of their crafts at the Falls Visitor Centre - shields made from fig tree buttresses, eeltraps from woven lawyer cane - and learn how the indigenes were crudely displaced.... The stretchers are only two saplings with a blanket strung between them and sewn up with lawyer vine. Instead of willow, baskets are made from lawyer vine. Origin Early 20th century: probably so named by humorous analogy with ‘tortuous’ legal arguments.
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