malacca
n 1: stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella
handles
2: a cane made from the stem of a rattan palm [syn: malacca,
malacca cane]
malacca adjectiveEtymology:Malacca, Malaya Date: 1844
made or consisting of the cane of an Asian rattan palm (Calamus
rotang) <an umbrella with a malacca handle> •
malaccanoun
malacca n. (in full malacca cane) a rich-brown cane from the stem of the palm-tree Calamus scipionum, used for walking-sticks etc. Etymology: Malacca in Malaysia
malacca
n. (in full malacca cane) a rich-brown cane from the stem of the palm-tree
Calamus scipionum, used for walking-sticks etc. [Malacca in Malaysia]
Malacca is a name given to the whole Malay Peninsula, that
remarkable tongue of land 44 to 210 m. wide, stretching 800 m. SE. from
Burma between the Strait of Malacca and the Gulf of Siam; mountain ranges
7000 ft. high from the backbone; along the coast are deep mangrove
swamps; the plains between yield rice, sugar-cane, cotton, and tobacco;
there are forests of teak, camphor, ebony, and sandal-wood, and the
richest tin mines in the world; the climate is unhealthy; the northern
portion is Siamese, the southern constitutes the British Straits
Settlements, of which one, on the W. coast, is specifically called
Malacca \Ma*lac"ca\, n.
A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula.
Malacca cane (Bot.), a cane obtained from a species of palm
of the genus Calamus ({C. Scipionum}), and of a brown
color, often mottled. The plant is a native of Cochin
China, Sumatra, and Malays.
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