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单词 lawyer vine
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Definition of lawyer vine in English:

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.

    澳洲省藤

    Genus Calamus, family Palmae

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

Origin

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

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