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Rattan is a climbing palm from hot, wet parts of Southeast Asia. People harvest the long, strong stems and weave them into chairs, tables, baskets, and lamp shades — the light brown furniture that looks like basket-work. If your grandmother has a woven chair on the balcony, it may well be rattan. English borrowed the name from Malay rotan; it was not built from English pieces. It has nothing to do with rats, even though the first letters match. Though actually, shops may also say wicker for this kind of look; wicker is the weaving style, and rattan is one of the plants used to do it.
藤、藤條（編藤椅、藤籃的那種）
組成Borrowed from Malay rotan. The word was not built from English pieces.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Rattanname
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A surname.
rattannoun/ɹəˈtan/
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Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus.
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The plant used as a material for making furniture, baskets etc.
- Then, how comparatively sweet was everything on board - no paint, no tar, no new rope, (vilest of smells to the qualmish!) no grease, or oil, or varnish; but instead of these, bamboo and rattan, and coir rope and palm thatch; pure vegetable fibres, which smell pleasantly if they smell at all, and recall quiet scenes in the green and shady forest.
- It took Elwood an hour to find Mr. Gladwell, who sat in a big rattan chair at the edge of the sweet potato fields.
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A cane made from this material.
- He who first acts as striker asks the other how many blows of the rattan he will bear on his forearm without crying out.
- “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
rattanverb/ɹəˈtan/
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To beat with a rattan cane.
- Meanwhile Captain Colville rattaned Pearson very severely […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。