malacca : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a cane made from the stem of a rattan palm
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WordNet

• (Bot.), a cane obtained from a species of palm of the genus Calamus (C. Scipionum), and of a brown color, often mottled. The plant is a native of Cochin China, Sumatra, and Malays.

Webster 1913