2. Noun. the genus Arundinaria, the sole temperate genus of bamboo native to the New World ¹
3. Verb. (third-person singular of cane) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Canes
1. cane [v] - See also: cane
Medical Definition of Canes
1. Sticks used as walking aids. The canes may have three or four prongs at the end of the shaft. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canes
Literary usage of Canes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"This allows the new canes to grow up outside the old ones and makes picking ...
(2) When the canes grow very long, they are not pruned until spring and then ..."
2. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Their canes are full of most cleare water, without any manner of taste or savour,
either of the canes, or of any other thing, and such as if it were taken ..."
3. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Their canes are full of most cleare water, without any manner of taste or savour,
either of the canes, or of any other thing, and such as if it were taken ..."
4. Proceedings, International Conference on Plant Breeding and Hybridization by C. Raveret-Wattel (1904)
"During the last forty years collections of selected sugar canes obtained from
various countries have been maintained under experimental cultivation at Java, ..."
5. Bulletin by North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (Fargo) (1899)
"If the plants fail to make a very vigorous growth the first season and the result
in the fall is but two or three weak canes to the hill, it is our custom ..."
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