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Definition of Lawyer cane
1. Noun. Tall scrambling spiny palm of northeastern Queensland, Australia.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lawyer Cane
Literary usage of Lawyer cane
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"... Benth., lawyer cane, bamboo, screw pines, &c. A fine watercourse was here
crossed, which was referred to as the Bellenden River. ..."
2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"Lawyer-Cane, Lawyer-Palm, and Lawyer-Vine. See Lawyer. Lead, n. (pronounced teed),
a mining term. In the Western United States and elsewhere, the term lead ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1880)
"Dense thickets of prickly growth, the lawyer cane predominating, forbid divergence
from the path without the aid of a tomahawk. ..."
4. Natives of Australia by Northcote Whitridge Thomas (1906)
"Some forty plants or trees are used in one of these ways, Calamus (lawyer cane
or vine) being specially important in the first class, Pandanus in the second ..."
5. Report of Meeting by ANZAAS, ANZAAS. (1903)
"... from about 8 to 10 or more inches long, drilled at their centres and fixed
cros^-wise in position with split lawyer-cane (PL XXXII., 19). ..."
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