Crossword clues for supplejack
Wiktionary
n. Any of various North American vines that have supple stems
WordNet
n. walking stick made from the wood of an American tropical vine
Wikipedia
Supplejack is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
- Plants in the Flagellariaceae family:
- Supplejack, Flagellaria indica a bamboo–like vine plant species native to eastern and northern Australia
- Plants in the Rhamnaceae family:
- Alabama supplejack, Berchemia scandens a climbing plant native to central and southern parts of the United States
- Supplejack tree, Ventilago viminalis, a tree native to Northern and Central Australia
- Plants in the Ripogonaceae family:
- Supplejack, Ripogonum scandens, a vine native to New Zealand
Usage examples of "supplejack".
When the hunters tired of fishing, and when they wearied of crossing the sand-dunes and the glaring, shimmering beachglaring and shimmering on every fine day of summer-to poke off the mussels and spear the butterfish and groper, they pushed through the Ceratopetalums and the burrawangs, and, following the tortuous bed of the principal creek amid the ferns and the moss and the vines and the myrtles, gradually ascending, they entered the sub-tropical patch where the ferns were huge and lank and staghorns clustered on rocks and trees, and the beautiful Dendrobium clung, and the supplejacks and leatherwoods and bangalow palms ran up in slender height, and that pretty massive parasite-the wild fig-made its umbrageous shade, as has been written.