MALACCA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Malacca mean? 

• MALACCA (noun)
  The noun MALACCA has 3 senses:

1. stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles

2. the third smallest Malaysian state; located in the southern region of the Malay Peninsula

3. a cane made from the stem of a rattan palm

  Familiarity information: MALACCA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALACCA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("malacca" is a kind of...):

cane (a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane)

Holonyms ("malacca" is a part of...):

Calamus rotang; rattan; rattan palm (climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for malacca canes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The third smallest Malaysian state; located in the southern region of the Malay Peninsula

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

Malaysian state (one of the several states constituting Malaysia)

Holonyms ("Malacca" is a part of...):

Malaya; Peninsular Malaysia; West Malaysia (the region of Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula; shares a land border with Thailand to the north)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A cane made from the stem of a rattan palm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

malacca; malacca cane

Hypernyms ("malacca" is a kind of...):

cane (a stick that people can lean on to help them walk)