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Found 2 hits - Term: small cane, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cane \cane\ k=an, n. oe. cane, canne, of. cane, f. canne,
   l. canna, fr. gr. ka`nna, ka`nnh; prob. of semitic origin;
   cf. heb. q=aneh reed. cf. canister, canon, 1st
   cannon.
   1913 webster
   1. bot.
      a a name given to several peculiar palms, species of
          calamus and daemanorops, having very long,
          smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.
      b any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and
          bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.
      c stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as,
          the canes of a raspberry.
          1913 webster

                like light canes, that first rise big and brave.
                                                  --b. jonson.
          1913 webster

   note: in the southern united states great cane is the
         arundinaria macrosperma, and small cane is.
         arundinaria tecta.
         1913 webster

   2. a walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally
      made of one of the species of cane.
      1913 webster

            stir the fire with your master's cane. --swift.
      1913 webster

   3. a lance or dart made of cane. r.
      1913 webster

            judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign
            the flying skirmish of the darted cane. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   4. a local european measure of length. see canna.
      1913 webster

   cane borer zool., a beetle oberea bimaculata 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.
      1913 webster
see also:
canister canon cannon calamus daemanorops great cane 
arundinaria macrosperma small cane arundinaria tecta canna cane borer 
oberea bimaculata cane mill cane trash 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
small cane
     n : small cane of watery or moist areas in southern united
         states syn: switch cane, arundinaria tecta
see also:
switch cane arundinaria tecta 

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