Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Spanish name for several species of the lianes or tall climbing plants of the tropics, such as Hippocratea scandens, etc.
  • noun A name applied especially to climbing palms, species of Calamus and Dæmonorops, known commercially as ratans.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Any climbing woody vine of the tropics with the habit of a liane; in the Philippines, esp. any of various species of Calamus, the cane or rattan palm.

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Examples

  • Of the many creepers we observed, one, called the bejuco, is so strong and tough that the natives use it to fasten together the rafters of their houses, and the bamboos forming the covering of the long flat-bottomed boats, called champans, with which they navigate the upper part of the river Magdalena.

    The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • The hunter who encounters a thicket of 'bejuco' goes around it, or turns back, for it is hopeless to try to go through.

    Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos Sargent Kayme

  • Then, if he tried to escape, or refused to come with them, one of the 'bejuco'

    Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos Sargent Kayme

  • 'bejuco' poles, and the rattans, and the whipping bench, and sometimes, of a Sunday, when I was in the village and could not go away, I had heard cries from the tribunal such as white men do not often hear -- such as I hope no one will ever hear again, even from those places.

    Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos Sargent Kayme

  • 'bejuco' vines, so arranged that the innumerable hooks which they bore could be easily swung about in the air.

    Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos Sargent Kayme

  • When Tito Rodriguez sang "En un sillón de bejuco solito me acomodé" [ "In an armchair of rattan I made myself comfortable"] he brought back an aspect of Caribbean living, reassuringly cozy and Creole.

    Mambo On My Mind 2008

  • Philippine Islands produce is one called the 'bejuco,' or 'jungle rope.'

    Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos Sargent Kayme

  • Pirates, half naked natives, pearls, man-apes, towering volcanoes about whose summits clouds and unearthly traditions float together, strange animals and birds, and stranger men, pythons, bejuco ropes stained with human blood, feathering palm trees now fanned by soft breezes and now crushed to the ground by tornadoes; -- on no mimic stage was ever a more wonderful scene set for such a company of actors.

    Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos Sargent Kayme

  • He makes nothing that the lowlands want, but he knows they use, in the construction of their houses, bejuco, of which his woods are full, and he has learned that they value beeswax, which he knows where to find and how to collect.

    Negritos of Zambales William Allan Reed

  • No nails are ever used, the whole being bound with _bejuco_.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

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