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▪ I. ‖ canna, n.1|ˈkænə|
[L. canna reed, cane, taken in Bot. as the name of an entirely different genus.]
A genus of endogenous plants (family Marantaceæ), with brightly coloured flowers, yellow, red, or orange, and ornamental foliage, natives of warm climates, but cultivated in Britain.
1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 197 Sow on the Hot-bed..Canna Indica..and the like rare and exotic Plants. 1767J. Abercrombie Ev. Man own Gard. 742/2 Canna, Indian shot, or canacorus. 1883Pall Mall G. 17 Sept. 4/1 Mark also the crescent-shaped bed of Cannas—the Indian shot, as it is sometimes called, from the seed being so hard that the Indians used it as a missile.
▪ II. ‖ canna, n.2
See cane n.1 7.
1600Pory Leo's Africa ii. 61 A Canna (a measure proper to this region containing two elles) of course cloth is solde for halfe a peece of gold.
▪ III. canna
(in 16th c. cannocht), Sc. form of cannot: see can v.
1721Ramsay Poems (1877) II. 267 He disna live that canna link The glass about. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 230, I canna read Greek—except in a Latin translation done into English.
▪ IV. canna
var. of cannach. |