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calamus
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
CALAMUS
n. 1. The generic name of the Indian cane, called also rotang. It is without branches, has a crown at the top, and is beset with spines.
2. In antiquity, a pipe or fistula, a wind instrument, made of a reed or oaten stalk.
3. A rush or reed used anciently as a pen to write on parchment or papyrus.
4. A sort of reed, or sweet-scented cane, used by the Jews as a perfume. It is a knotty root, reddish without and white within, and filled with a spungy substance. It has an aromatic smell.
5. The sweet flag, called by Linne Acorus.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
CALAMUS
Cal "a *mus, n.; pl. Calami. Etym: [L., a reed. See Halm. ]
1. (Bot. )
Defn: The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.
2. (Bot. )
Defn: A species of Acorus (A. calamus ), commonly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors.
3. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.
New American Oxford Dictionary
calamus
cal a mus |ˈkaləməs ˈkæləməs | ▶noun ( pl. calami |-ˌmī, -ˌmē | ) 1 another term for sweet flag. • (also calamus root ) a preparation of the aromatic root of the sweet flag. 2 Zoology the hollow lower part of the shaft of a feather, which lacks barbs; a quill. ORIGIN late Middle English (denoting a reed or an aromatic plant mentioned in the Bible ): from Latin, from Greek kalamos. Sense 1 dates from the mid 17th cent.
Oxford Dictionary
calamus
calamus |ˈkaləməs | ▶noun ( pl. calami |-mʌɪ | ) 1 another term for sweet flag. • (also calamus root ) [ mass noun ] a preparation of the aromatic root of the sweet flag. 2 Zoology the hollow lower part of the shaft of a feather, which lacks barbs; a quill. ORIGIN late Middle English (denoting a reed or an aromatic plant mentioned in the Bible ): from Latin, from Greek kalamos. Sense 1 dates from the mid 17th cent.
Duden Dictionary
Calamus
Ca la mus Substantiv, maskulin , der |C a lamus |der Calamus; Genitiv: des Calamus, Plural: die Calami griechisch-lateinisch 1 antikes Schreibgerät aus Schilfrohr 2 hohler Teil des Federkiels bei Vogelfedern Spule
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