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Calamus

noun
(pl. calami)
1.
Any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes.
2.
The aromatic root of the sweet flag used medicinally.
3.
Perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots.  Synonyms: Acorus calamus, flagroot, myrtle flag, sweet calamus, sweet flag.
4.
A genus of Sparidae.  Synonym: genus Calamus.
5.
The hollow spine of a feather.  Synonyms: quill, shaft.



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"Calamus" Quotes from Famous Books



... out, in reg'lar order, and larnt, I guess, just about as much as you did, about your disappointment and your worry. Then I thought, 'as like as not that woman is having more trouble down upon the island than I know anything about. So, true as calamus is sweet-flag, as soon as you was on your white horse, like the old lady of Banbury Cross, I was in my everyday skiff, and I didn't lose you out of my sight from the minute you started to the minute Peter and Ransom took you on the ferry—but I slid along ...
— A Dream of Empire - Or, The House of Blennerhassett • William Henry Venable
... its creepers, and some of them very curious. The most remarkable are the ratans, belonging to the Calamus genus of palms. Of these I have seen a specimen 250 feet long and an inch in diameter, without a single irregularity, and no appearance of foliage other than the bunch of feathery ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent


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