cane | a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment |
cane | a stick that people can lean on to help them walk |
malacca malacca cane | a cane made from the stem of a rattan palm |
sword cane sword stick | a cane concealing a sword or dagger |
bamboo curtain | an ideological barrier around communist China especially in the s and s |
cane sugar | sugar from sugarcane used as sweetening agent |
candy cane | a hard candy in the shape of a rod (usually with stripes) |
bamboo shoot | edible young shoots of bamboo |
dumb cane mother-in-law plant mother-in-law's tongue Dieffenbachia sequine | an evergreen plant with large showy dark green leaves, contains a poison that swells the tongue and throat hence the name |
sugarcane sugar cane Saccharum officinarum | tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks, sap is a chief source of sugar |
sugarcane sugar cane | juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar, fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice |
noble cane | sugarcanes representing the highest development of the species, characterized by large juicy stalks with soft rinds and high sugar content |
cane | a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane |
rattan rattan cane | the stem of various climbing palms of the genus Calamus and related genera used to make wickerwork and furniture and canes |
bamboo | woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems, mature canes used for construction and furniture |
bamboo | the hard woody stems of bamboo plants, used in construction and crafts and fishing poles |
common bamboo Bambusa vulgaris | extremely vigorous bamboo having thin-walled culms striped green and yellow, so widely cultivated that native area is uncertain |
giant cane cane reed Arundinaria gigantea | tall grass of southern United States growing in thickets |
small cane switch cane Arundinaria tecta | small cane of watery or moist areas in southern United States |
giant bamboo kyohiku Dendrocalamus giganteus | immense tropical southeast Asian bamboo with tough hollow culms that resemble tree trunks |
fishpole bamboo gosanhiku hoteihiku Phyllostachys aurea | small bamboo of southeastern China having slender culms flexuous when young |
black bamboo kurihiku Phyllostachys nigra | small bamboo having thin green culms turning shining black |
giant timber bamboo madake kuhiku Phyllostachys bambusoides | large bamboo having thick-walled culms, native of China and perhaps Japan, widely grown elsewhere |
lawyer cane Calamus australis | tall scrambling spiny palm of northeastern Queensland, Australia |
bamboo palm Raffia vinifera | a palm of the genus Raffia |
miniature fan palm bamboo palm fern rhapis Rhapis excelsa | small graceful palm with reedlike stems and leaf bases clothed with loose coarse fibers |
bamboo fern Coniogramme japonica | fast-growing sturdy Japanese fern, cultivated for their attractive broad dark-green pinnate fronds |
cane blight | a disease affecting the canes of various bush fruits (e.g., raspberries or currants) |
cane sugar | sucrose obtained from sugar cane |
cane flog lambaste lambast | beat with a cane |