Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement. · To make or furnish with cane or rattan. · To destroy; to comprehensively defeat. · To do something well, in a competent fashion.
The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae. · The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed. · Sugar cane. · Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar.
Etymology tree Akkadian 𒂵𒉡𒌑𒌝 (qanûm)bor. Ancient Greek κᾰ́ννᾰ (kắnnă)bor. Latin canna Old French canebor. Middle English cane English cane From Middle English cane, canne, from Old French cane (“sugar cane”), from Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”). Doublet of canna and kaneh. Related to channel and canal.
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