Meanings
plural rattan palms
- A palm of the genus Calamus.
The vegetation was most luxuriant, comprising enormous forest trees, as well as a variety of ferns, caladiums, and other undergrowth, and abundance of climbing rattan palms.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 37
Synonyms & antonyms
nounclimbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for malacca canes
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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rattan palm. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rattan%20palm
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