calamus.
Sweet flag (Acorus calamus).
Meaning & usage
Sweet flag (Acorus calamus).
A quill; the hard, horny, hollow, and more or less transparent part of the stem or scape of a feather.
A fish of genus Calamus in family Sparidae; certain porgies.
A palm in genus Calamus, of rattan palms.
A fistular stem without an articulation.
Synonym of fistula (“tube for sucking Eucharist wine”).
Where this word comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin calamus (“reed, cane”). Doublet of culm, haulm, helm (Etymology 4, stalk), qalam, and shawm.
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