lawyer vine

English

Noun

lawyer vine (plural lawyer vines)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) Any of various chiefly climbing plants of coastal Australia, especially of the genus Calamus, with strong curved hooks. [from 19th c.]
   • 2005, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage, published 2015, page 75:

     When we got there, Chillagoe turned out to be a single chimneystack sticking up out of acres of ruins under waist-high lawyer vines.

Synonyms

• lawyer cane
• lawyer palm

Related terms

• bush lawyer
• wait-a-while