Rattan vs Fern - What's the difference?
rattan | fern |
Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus .
(lb) The plant used as a material.
A cane made from this material.
*1906 , Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden, Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula
*:He who first acts as striker asks the other how many blows of the rattan he will bear on his forearm without crying out.
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*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan . ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
*2008 , Jean-François Bayart, Andrew Brown, Global Subjects: A Political Critique of Globalization
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Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.
