calamus rotang

1. 1.

   climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for malacca canes

   Synonymsrattanrattan palm

   Broadercalamus

   Partsmalacca

Questions about calamus rotang

What does calamus rotang mean?

calamus rotang means "climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for malacca canes".

What is another word for calamus rotang?

Close synonyms include rattan, rattan palm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calamus rotang a common word?

calamus rotang is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.