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Word Meanings - CANE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Dæmanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans. Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane. Stems
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A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Dæmanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans. Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane. Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry. Like light canes, that first rise big and brave. B. Jonson. Note: In the Southern United States great cane is the Arundinaria macrosperma, and small cane is. A. tecta. 2. A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane. Stir the fire with your master's cane. Swift. 3. A lance or dart made of cane. Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign The flying skirmish of the darted cane. Dryden. 4. A local European measure of length. See Canna. Cane borer , A beetle which, in the larval state, bores into pith and destroy the canes or stalks of the raspberry, blackberry, etc. -- Cane mill, a mill for grinding sugar canes, for the manufacture of sugar. -- Cane trash, the crushed stalks and other refuse of sugar cane, used for fuel, etc.
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- FLAGELLATE
To whip; to scourge; to flog. (more info) fr. flagellum whip, dim. of flagrum whip, scoure; cf. fligere to - CASTIGATE
punish; castus pure, chaste + agere to move, drive. See Caste, and 1. To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely. 2. To emend; to correct. - UNIFLAGELLATE
Having but one flagellum; as, uniflagellate organisms. - BIFLAGELLATE
Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.