Calamus

Quick meaning: Calamus is a noun meaning Sweet flag (Acorus calamus).

Meaning

Sweet flag (Acorus calamus).

More Meanings

1. (ornithology) A quill; the hard, horny, hollow, and more or less transparent part of the stem or scape of a feather.
2. A fish of genus Calamus in family Sparidae; certain porgies.
3. A palm in genus Calamus, of rattan palms.
4. (botany) A fistular stem without an articulation.
5. (Christianity, historical) Synonym of fistula (“tube for sucking Eucharist wine”).

Example Sentences

Chapin asserted that the calamus is firmly fixed in the wing

In follicles late in feather growth, after rupture of the feather sheath, this canal contained the upper part of the calamus.

Thus, the four distinct feather parts that have been compared as to amino acid content to note whether or not the composition is uniform are rachis, barbs, calamus and medulla.

A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices

Word Forms

• calamuses
• calami

Synonyms for calamus

Depending on context, synonyms include fistula, quill, shaft.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include quill, shaft, beewort, acorum, sweetflag, lawyer.

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