Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the ratan-palms, Calamus Rotang. See
ratan .
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Examples
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Species with Western Ghats affinities include Schefflera venulosa, Artocarpus integrifolia, Gnetum ula, and Calamus rotang.
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Around and across all this wind the parasites, lianas, rotang, some stretched like ropes from one trunk to another, some rising in elegant curves from the ground, some attached to other trunks and sucking out their life with a thousand roots, others interlaced in the air in distorted curves.
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914
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Its fruit, of the form of the cones of the pine, and covered with scales, perfectly resembles that of the Calamus rotang.
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Its fruit, of the form of the cones of the pine, and covered with scales, perfectly resembles that of the Calamus rotang.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Rattans or rotan (Calamus rotang) furnish annually many large cargoes, chiefly from the eastern side of the island, where the Dutch buy them to send to Europe; and the country traders for the western parts of India.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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