Definition of Calamus australis

1. Noun. Tall scrambling spiny palm of northeastern Queensland, Australia.

Exact synonyms: Lawyer Cane
Generic synonyms: Calamus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calamus Australis

Calabria
Calabrian
Calabrians
Caladenia cairnsiana
Caladium bicolor
Calais
Calamagrostic quadriseta
Calamagrostis
Calamagrostis acutiflora
Calamintha
Calamintha grandiflora
Calamintha nepeta
Calamintha nepeta glantulosa
Calamintha sylvatica
Calamity Jane
Calamus australis (current term)
Calamus penna
Calamus rotang
Calan
Calandrinia
Calandrinia ciliata
Calapooya
Calapuya
Calayan rail
Calayan rails
Calculus Surface Index
Calcutta
Calcuttan
Caldani's ligament
Calder

Literary usage of Calamus australis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"The words Bush- Lawyer, Lawyer- Vine, and Lawyer- Palm, are used with the same signification, and are also applied in some colonies to the Calamus australis ..."

2. Among Cannibals: An Account of Four Years' Travels in Australia and of Camp by Carl Lumholtz (1889)
"If he has to climb a high tree, he first goes into the scrub to fetch a piece of the Australian calamus (Calamus australis], which he partly bites, ..."

3. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1851)
"In the jungle one's progress is every now and then impeded by tough rope- like climbers and thickets of rattan ( Calamus australis) with recurved prickles, ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1876)
"Where the forest is more dense it is difficult to penetrate from the entanglement of the vines, and that strong-growing climbing palm (Calamus australis ? ..."

5. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies by Charles Prestwood Lucas (1907)
"... of an Expedition into Tropical Australia (1848), pp. 90, 111. 1 Northern affluents of the Darling. 3 Calamus australis, 8ec. * Ante, p. 87. ..."

6. Australasia by Alfred Russel Wallace, Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1893)
"The former is a species of rattan (Calamus australis), armed with hooks and spurs, which once fast never let go, and the stem being hard, elastic, ..."

7. The Australian Race: Its Origin, Languages, Customs, Place of Landing in by Edward Micklethwaite Curr (1886)
"... these tribes have water-bags, which they make of closely- plaited " lawyer " (Calamus australis), and also of palm- leaf sewn with the sinews of animals ..."

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