Canna vs Brook - What's the difference?
canna | brook |
Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers.
* 2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 7:
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 18, author=Anne Raver, title=Is It Spring? Winter? What’s a Flower to Think?, work=New York Times
, passage=Still, some of Mr. Cooper’s tender salvias are wintering over, and he plans to leave a few clumps of cannas in the ground next fall. }}
(Scotland, Jamaica) Contraction of can not; cannot.
* 1966 -- Star Trek: )
To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
To earn; deserve.
(label) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object ).
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, chapter=6, title= * 2005 , Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World , Harper:
A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
*Bible, (w) viii. 7
*:The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
A water meadow.
Low, marshy ground.
As proper nouns the difference between canna and brook
is that canna is while brook is for someone living by a brook .canna
English
Etymology 1
(wikipedia canna) From (etyl) . (Canna)Noun
(en noun)- A palisade of Canary palms formed an honour guard along the verges, while beds of golden cannas flamed from the central reservation.
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Etymology 2
Verb
(en-cont)- Scotty: I canna' change the laws of physics.
Etymology 3
(etyl)brook
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
- Nevertheless, Garcilaso does claim that the Spaniards ‘who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians’.