Meanings
nounlawyer vine (plural lawyer vines)
plural lawyer vines
- AustraliaNew ZealandAny of various chiefly climbing plants of coastal Australia, especially of the genus Calamus, with strong curved hooks.First known use 19th c.
When we got there, Chillagoe turned out to be a single chimneystack sticking up out of acres of ruins under waist-high lawyer vines.
2005, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage, published 2015, page 75Synonyms: lawyer cane, lawyer palm
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAny of various chiefly climbing plants of coastal Australia, especially of the genus Calamus, with strong curved hooks.
Similar
lawyer canelawyer palm
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