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lawyer vine en · NOUN
Meanings
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(Australia, New-Zealand) Any of various chiefly climbing plants of coastal Australia, especially of the genus Calamus, with strong curved hooks.
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 75:
Forms
Relateds
bush lawyer · wait-a-while
Synonyms
lawyer palm · lawyer cane