Lexic.us

Definition of Switch cane

1. Noun. Small cane of watery or moist areas in southern United States.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Switch Cane

Literary usage of Switch cane

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1907)
"If a growth of switch cane ... condition for the presence of Swainson's Warbler, which, however, is seldom found even where the switch cane occurs. ..."

2. Avery Glibun; Or, Between Two Fires: A Romance by Robert Henry Newell (1867)
"... I at first saw only a number of smiling faces expressing no particular meaning, nor was it until the carved ivory handle of a black switch-cane had been ..."

3. The Grasses of Tennessee; including Cereals and Forage plants: Including by Joseph Buckner Killebrew (1878)
"The switch cane is the seedling, and as the roots becomes older, they thow up from year to year larger stems, provided it is not too much trodden, ..."

4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"In swamps and moist soil, Maryland to Indiana, Missouri, Florida and Texas. Switch-cane. Reed. Cane-brake. May-July. 2. Arundinaria macrosperma Michx. ..."

5. Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society by Mississippi Historical Society, Franklin Lafayette Riley (1906)
"... described fully under upland undergrowth, its dimensions and character in the low grounds; switch-cane; 2, palmetto, ..."

6. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1907)
"If a growth of switch cane ... condition for the presence of Swainson's Warbler, which, however, is seldom found even where the switch cane occurs. ..."

7. Avery Glibun; Or, Between Two Fires: A Romance by Robert Henry Newell (1867)
"... I at first saw only a number of smiling faces expressing no particular meaning, nor was it until the carved ivory handle of a black switch-cane had been ..."

8. The Grasses of Tennessee; including Cereals and Forage plants: Including by Joseph Buckner Killebrew (1878)
"The switch cane is the seedling, and as the roots becomes older, they thow up from year to year larger stems, provided it is not too much trodden, ..."

9. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"In swamps and moist soil, Maryland to Indiana, Missouri, Florida and Texas. Switch-cane. Reed. Cane-brake. May-July. 2. Arundinaria macrosperma Michx. ..."

10. Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society by Mississippi Historical Society, Franklin Lafayette Riley (1906)
"... described fully under upland undergrowth, its dimensions and character in the low grounds; switch-cane; 2, palmetto, ..."

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