(n.) One of the long slender flexible stems of several species of palms of the genus Calamus, mostly East Indian, though some are African and Australian. They are exceedingly tough, and are used for walking sticks, wickerwork, chairs and seats of chairs, cords and cordage, and many other purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The punishment is carried out with thin rattan canes, with people still clothed while the strokes are delivered.
(2) Before the companies came we had a lot of natural resources, like honey, rattan, fish, shrimps and wood," he said.
(3) Associative intrusions in the thought of short-term and long-term schizophrenic, non-schizophrenic, and non-psychiatric in-patients were measured using Rattan and Chapman's multiple-choice vocabulary test.
(4) Pharmacological evidence for distinct M1 and M2 muscarinic receptors was presented in 1978 by Goyal and Rattan; in addition receptor binding studies of atropine and acetylcholine have demonstrated that muscarinic antagonists do not distinguish receptor subtypes while agonists do it (fig.