lawyer vine
(亦作lawyer cane)
noun
1- 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。
1.1
- Genus Calamus, family Palmae.省藤属, 棕榈科。
词源
early 20th cent.: probably so named by humorous analogy with 'tortuous' legal arguments.