lawyer vine
English edit
Noun edit
lawyer vine (plural lawyer vines)
- (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.