Cane

Cane are very tall perennial grasses, with flexible stalks, that grow in damp soils.

Taxa of cane are:

• Arundo, Old World canes
• Arundinaria, New World canes
• Arundo donax, Giant Cane

Cane may also refer to:

• Cane (tool), a walking stick/cane
• Cane (crutch), a walking stick/cane for the disabled
• Caning, corporal punishment with cane or a flexible rattan
• Caning (furniture), making household furniture out of cane (wicker or rattan)

In plant names

• Sugarcane, Sacchrum
  • Cane ethanol, fuel made from sugarcane, especially in Brazil
  • Cane holing, the planting of sugarcane
• Cane Ash, the White Ash tree, Fraxinus americana
• Cane Cholla, Cylindropuntia imbricata, a cactus

In animal names

• Cane beetle, Dermolepida albohirtum, a pest of sugarcane, native to Australia
• Cane Corso, ("can-ay cor-so"),'racing dog', the Italian Mastiff
• Cane mouse, Zygodontomys, a rodent from Central and South America
• Cane rat, Thryonomys, a large rodent native to Africa
• Cane spider, the Brown Huntsman Spider, Heteropoda venatoria, native to the Caribbean
• Cane toad, Bufo marinus, native to Latin America
• Cane Turtle, Vijayachelys silvatica, native to the Cochin Forest, India

In place names

• Canë or Qana', an old name for the Yemeni port of Mukalla
• Cane Island in Katy, Texas, U.S.A.
• Canë, La Paz, Honduras
• Cane Grove, Guyana
• Cane Patch, a historic site in Florida, U.S.A.
• Cane Ridge, Kentucky, U.S.A.
• Cane River, a river in Louisiana, U.S.A.
  • Cane River Lake
• Cane Valley, Kentucky, U.S.A.
• Cane Hill, a former psychiatric hospital in Coulsdon, London
• Canebrake, sundry places in the American South and Far West

In entertainment and the arts

• Cane (musician)
• Cane (novel), African-American novel by Jean Toomer
• "Cane" (TV series), a U.S. television show on the Columbia Broadcasting System
• Cane Ashby, a character on "The Young and the Restless"
• Facino Cane (1360—1412), Italian condottiero
• Citizen Caned (b. 1972), Darren Tate, an English record producer and club disk jockey
• Citizen Kane (1941), the first feature film directed by Orson Welles

In sports

• Cane hockey, colloquial for "roller hockey"
• Cane Pace, a horse racing competition
• Carolina Hurricanes, a National Hockey League team based in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A., nicknamed the 'Canes
• Miami Hurricanes, the athletic teams of the University of Miami, nicknamed the 'Canes

Other

• Cane gun, a gun disguised as a walking cane
• Cane sword, a cane with a blade inside
• Canebrake, a stand of cane, common to wetlands of Southern and Far Western North America
• Caneworking, a style of glassblowing

See also

• Caen
• Cain (disambiguation)
• Cain, Adam's eldest son, who killed his brother Abel
• Caine
• Cains
• Kain
• Kane
• O'Cahan, an Irish surname (the anglicized form is Kane)

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